A holobiont is an assemblage of a host and the many other species living in or around it, which together form a discrete ecological unit through symbiosis...

design (see diagram on right). Reef-building corals are well-studied holobionts that include the coral itself together with its symbiont zooxanthellae...

Rix, L.; Slaby, B. M.; Franke, A.; Hentschel, U. (2018). "The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems". Microbiome. 6 (1):...

footage of seagrass meadow, bull huss and conger eel The concept of the holobiont, which emphasizes the importance and interactions of a microbial host...

The holobiont concept is a renewed paradigm in biology that can help to describe and understand complex systems, like the host-microbe interactions that...

synergetically-interacting organisms of different species is called a holobiont. The term superorganism is used most often to describe a social unit of...

assemblage of species that is often referred to as a holobiont. Selective pressure acting on holobiont components has likely shaped plant-associated microbial...

nitrogen availability. Under such conditions, animal-microbe associations (holobionts) are often key to ecosystem functioning. An example is the role of fiddler...

and genetic characteristics, sometimes collectively referred to as a holobiont. The presence of microbiota in human and other metazoan guts has been...

functional entity, where the metabolic crosstalk within the rhodolith as a holobiont could be exerting reciprocal influence over the associated microbiome...