🐜The ant holobiont as a key ingredient to your yogurt? ✨Fermentation is Fascinating✨ Check out this new paper!

Robust, Open-Source and Automation-Friendly DNA Extraction Protocol for Hologenomic Research enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #symbiosis #microbiome

"Tick–pathogen–microbiome interactions based on #hologenome-wide analysis" from 16,000 ticks, 48 species, and 8 genera. 👀 Nutritional endosymbionts are prevalent with a new 7,783 bacterial genomes from 1,373 bacterial species. @holobiontbiology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbes = climate allies. Our new editorial calls for a global alliance to put microbial science at the center of climate action. 🌱🌍 Because microbes cross every border—so should our solutions. 👉 doi.org/10.1093/sumb...

This is next level, important, and inspiring. Very well done. "Holobiont–holobiont interactions across host–ectoparasite systems" parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#Phylosymbiosis and #cospeciation associations of gut #fungi in this set of initial analyses initiates a step….to decipher the broader forces of fungal assembly in human and primate #holobionts By @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social @erdavenport.bsky.social & Co. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Functional division of labor in motility, lignocellulose digestion, and nitrogen metabolism revealed for the Mixotricha paradoxa holobiont #microbiology #protists #termites @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

This study examines the population genetics and microbial communities of the West Nile virus mosquito holobiont, Culex tarsalis. There are 4 genetic clusters of mosquitoes and 3 distinct clusters of bacterial communities, with fungal communities being less defined. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Within-host microbial selection and multiple microbial generations buffer the loss of host fitness under environmental change @holobiontbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...

For those engaged in studies on the hologenome and its relevance to One Health www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025

The landscape of microbial associations in human cancer www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... TLDR -- most cancers do not have microbiomes...but a few do have consistent microbe associations (i.e., colorectal and oral cancers). Make sense!

Pleased to share new work tinkering with and testing the concept of the holobiont @isme-microbes.bsky.social "Experimental evolution of a mammalian holobiont: bank voles selected for herbivorous capability evolved distinct and robust gut bacterial communities" 🌾🐭🦠 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

📢 We offer a fully funded 4-year #PhD position to work on tick #microbiota 🦠 dynamics using #genomics 🧬 at @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social, supervised by @sdiazsanchez.bsky.social. For requisites and contact info, please check 👇 www.irec.es/noticias/pro...

Methods paper was just published from @hologenomics.bsky.social - "a robust, cost-effective, scalable and automation-friendly nucleic acid extraction procedure to generate high-quality #hologenomic data" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Final PDF of Functional Team Selection, written with #NancyCollinsJohnson published in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal: - If there is: selective force, host constitution, & enough microbial diversity/time, a + PSF is likely - Plant #holobiont is a complex adaptive system doi.org/10.1093/isme...

What determines the human gut fungal community? @emilyvansyoc.bsky.social @erdavenport.bsky.social @symbionticism.bsky.social &co present the first #GWAS of human genetic loci that influence the abundance of gut #fungi, linking these to disease risk #mycobiome @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/42bCKou

Poster: “Healthy plants make healthy animals: Applying the One Health concept to livestock holobionts” ✔️ phytobiomesalliance.org/news/the-all...

Stop the press. There may be a universal PCR marker for covering all biodiversity. “we demonstrate the applicability & effectiveness of the JEDI marker approach for quantifying and monitoring biodiversity across scales, from individual holobionts to whole ecosystems” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"These stressors can either directly kill the coral animal or disrupt the coral’s symbiotic relationships with either their obligate algal endosymbionts (Symbiodiniaceae), or their commensal microbiota, collectively known as the coral HOLOBIONT" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"coral heterotrophy in some species may serve mainly to supplement the HOLOBIONT with essential biomolecules (i.e., fats and amino acids) and elements like nitrogen that can be retained via tight nutritional recycling with the coral symbiont Symbiodiniaceae" www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Holobiont is a term used to describe an individual host and its microbial community, including viruses and cellular microorganisms. It is derived from the Greek word holos, which means whole or entire

Class activity today was for students to calculate, as a group, what percent of the human holobiont is host. One student left saying, “damn, my world is shook.”

We're very much looking forward to connecting with young scientists and making the marine holobiont community grow and evolve! Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Join us! This is more than a scientific meeting, it's a platform to catalyze collaboration, share knowledge openly and develop solutions for safeguarding marine ecosystems in a changing world. Great line-up of speakers and early bird rate still available! Please RT!

A host has never been just a host. A host has always lived as a multiscale holobiont made from context-sensitive cells of host and microorganisms. It is ultimately this dynamic composition that determines forms, functions, and their endless variations. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"concept of the programmable holobiont: an engineered plant-microbe partnership capable of dynamic feedback, interkingdom signaling, and ecological memory. This systems-level perspective reframes plants as designable ecosystems"

Your students arrive in Curaçao earlier than you and say: We are bored. Can we do that extra diel cycle sampling that we talked about 🤔 ? Your only answer as a PI: Sure 😬 The outcome? Sleep-deprived students and an excellent work on the #coral holobiont rhythmicity 🪸🦠⏰ #symbiosis #microbiome

Excited to announce another #WSC2025 keynote: Prof. Jasper de Goeij (University of Amsterdam)! He will open the session “Ecosystem Function and Services” with his talk “The sponge holobiont brings life to shallow and deep marine ecosystems.” Don’t miss it! 🌊

"The plant-associated soil and root microbiome, collectively known as the phytomicrobiome, forms a HOLOBIONT with the plant, engaging in symbiotic, competitive, or neutral interactions." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

@kelseybeavers.bsky.social found evidence of dysbiosis between the coral host and Symbiodiniaceae and describes the metabolic and immune shifts that occur as the holobiont transitions from healthy to disease. See her beautiful models in the paper!

🪸 Today’s #DailyCoralRead introduces HERS—Host Evaluation of Reliance on Symbionts—a new metric for quantifying host dependence on symbiont autotrophy using stable isotope ellipse overlap in C & N space. Cool new tool for holobiont nutritional ecology! http://tiny.cc/70hq001

Notably, an isolate from an AMD site in Canada was found to boost its tolerance to low pH by associating with an antibiotic-producing fungus and an acidophilic bacterium — forming a truly heavy-metal holobiont known as the FAB (fungus, alga, bacterium) consortium.

In lesion tissue (LD), we found signatures of NF-κB immune activation, autophagy, oxidative stress and cytoskeletal/ECM breakdown in the coral host, alongside chloroplast dysfunction in the symbionts. Together, these signal a complete collapse of holobiont homeostasis.

The globe is growing the future. Greece, Australia, India, Japan, Canada, the US, and Mexico team up to place the holobiont concept at the center of modern plant breeding, focusing on the complex interactions between plants and soil microbiomes. www.newswise.com/articles/the...

Let's celebrate this - Holobionts are incontrovertible, multipartite entities that result from ecological, evolutionary, and genetic processes. They are not restricted to one special process but constitute a wider vocabulary and framework for biology. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Symbiotic Symbiodiniaceae mediate coral-associated bacterial communities along a natural thermal gradient #symbiosis #microbiome #coral #holobiont #protists #protistsonsky environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

How can the transition between laboratories, industry, and farmers facilitate the implementation of #holobiont engineering strategies? www.cell.com/trends/plant...

New paper on drivers of holobiont assembly in massive Porites #coral in Australia. Long story short: genetic structure trumps local environment and size class to determine both Symbiodiniaceae and microbiome communities. doi.org/10.1371/jour... @heatshok.bsky.social

Hologenomics Reveals Specialized Dietary Adaptations in the Mengla Snail‐Eating Snake. Lipid deficiency, ammonia detoxification, and mucus degradation are all stacked into the Pareas #holobiont. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Let's celebrate this - Holobionts are incontrovertible, multipartite entities that result from ecological, evolutionary, and genetic processes. They are not restricted to one special process but constitute a wider vocabulary and framework for biology. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A lot of confusion in the field was created by critiques that were false pretenses. The holobiont is an organizational structure. Mutualism, integration, conflict, and more are part of that organization determinig biological form and function. The way to clarify is to spread more accuracy.

After 6 years of work (since ICOM Mérida 2019) with #NancyCollinsJohnson our “Functional team selection as a framework for local adaptation in plants and their belowground microbiomes” is out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal! doi.org/10.1093/isme... #Mycorrhiza #Holobiont #MultilevelSelection

The role of holobiont composition and environmental history in thermotolerance of Tropical Eastern Pacific corals #coral #holobiont #symbionts www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Theory of host-microbe symbioses: Challenges & opportunities Discussion on mathematical modeling of microbial symbioses with 3 noted areas requiring advancement: nested ecology w/in host or holobiont, holobiont population dynamics & symbiont-mediated speciation www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Our article on the challenges and opportunities in studying host-microbe symbioses is now published in Cell Host & Microbe! @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quantitative Hologenomics is a positively badass name for a computational discipline.

What is the word when AI calls it decisively right, and illustrious intellectuals do the opposite? 🤔

Quantitative Hologenomics is coming faster than most people think. The goal will be to identify the number and types of host and microbial genes, plus their putative interactions, that could explain #holobiont phenotypes. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

This study highlights how differences in parental care impact (i) parental and larval microbiomes and (ii) the implications for parental‐offspring microbiome dynamics in gut microbiome and #holobiont evolution. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...