Disentangling direct vs indirect effects of microbiome manipulations in a habitat-forming marine holobiont.

ABSTRACT: Host-associated microbiota are critical for eukaryotic host functioning, to the extent that hosts and their associated microbial communities are often considered "holobionts". Most studies of holobionts have focused on descriptive approaches or have used model systems, usually in the laboratory, to understand host-microbiome interactions. To advance our understanding of host-microbiota interactions and their wider ecological impacts, we need experimental frameworks that can explore causation in non-model hosts, which often have highly diverse microbiota, and in their natural ecological setting (i.e. in the field). We used a dominant habitat-forming seaweed, Hormosira banksii, to explore these issues and to experimentally test host-microbiota interactions in a non-model holobiont. The exper

SUBMITTER: McGrath AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10980776 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature