Microbiomes

Current Knowledge and Unanswered Questions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Eugene Rosenberg

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The author not only focusses on prokaryotic components in microbiomes, but also addresses single-cell eukaryotes and viruses. This follow-up to the successful book The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota, published in 2013, provides a contemporary overview of microbiomes.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-03
Mått155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt884 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMicrobiomes of Humans, Animals, Plants, and the Environment
Antal sidor431
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030653163

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Biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
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Eugene Rosenberg is an Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University. He has performed pioneer research on Myxobacteria, microorganisms to combat hydrocarbon pollution (bioremediation), coral disease, and together with Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg proposed the hologenome concept of evolution. He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, serving as a Fogarty International scholar at the NIH, the Pan Lab Prize of the Society of Industrial Microbiology, the Israel Prize for a Beautiful Israel, the Procter & Gamble Prize of the American Society for Microbiology, and the Karl August Möbius Prize (Germany) for lifetime achievements in symbiosis. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a founding member of the European Academy of Microbiology.

Introduction.- Composition of Microbiomes.- Dynamics of Microbiomes.- Holistic Fitness: Microbiomes are Part of the Holobiont`s Fitness.- Transmission of Hologenomes Between Generations: Mothers Matter Most.- Eukaryotic Microorganisms are Part of Holobionts.- Viruses are Part of the Holobiont`s Fitness and Evolution.- Genetic Variation in Holobionts.- Evolution of Holobionts: The Hologenome Concept.- Microbiomes in Medicine and Agriculture.- Microbiomes: Some Philosophical and Sociological Implications.