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Derek J Skillings

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i holobiont are you and your microbes a community or a single entity

I, Holobiont. Are You and Your Microbes a Community or a Single Entity?

Scientists have discovered more and more plants and animals that are accompanied by a jostling menagerie of internal and external fellow-travellers and a species called holobiont, a unique combination of a host, plus all of the resident microbes that live in it and on it.