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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 5d

🐜The ant holobiont as a key ingredient to your yogurt?

✨Fermentation is Fascinating✨

Check out this new paper!

Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 5d

Making #yogurt with ants from a nearly forgotten Bulgarian recipe. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

@cp-iscience.bsky.social
Veronica M. Sinotte, Leonie J. Jahn & colleagues

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 8d

"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...

Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals microbiome diversity across 48 tick species - Nature Microbiology

Sequencing the genome and microbiome of about 1,500 tick samples from regions across China revealed host–microbe associations in ticks that could have implications for controlling ticks and tick-borne diseases.

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · 9d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thermal extremes likely trigger metabolic imbalance in coral holobionts - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Thermal extremes likely trigger metabolic imbalance in coral holobionts

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Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social · 13d

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...

Microbes without borders: uniting societies for climate action

Abstract. The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our time, yet the role of microorganisms remains underrecognized in climate science and p

doi.org

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · 13d

This is next level, important, and inspiring. Very well done.

"Holobiont–holobiont interactions across host–ectoparasite systems"

parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · 15d

#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/...

Gut fungal profiles reveal phylosymbiosis and codiversification across humans and nonhuman primates

Fungi in the gut microbiome (the "mycobiome") are a neglected component of the human holobiont. This study of gut fungal profiles across natural populations of humans and non-human primates reveals si...

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Evgenii Protasov @evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · 19d

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...

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · 22d

The findings suggest that both host genetics and environmental factors, such as geographic location, influence the mosquito hologenome. Understanding these relationships is crucial because a mosquito's microbiome can affect its ability to transmit diseases. From @vectorgen.bsky.social & Co.

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · 22d

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...

Hologenomic structure of bacterial and fungal community composition in the West Nile virus vector Culex tarsalis

Background Microbiota play a crucial role in determining the ability for arthropod disease vectors to transmit pathogens. Microbial community structure can be heavily influenced by microbe-microbe int...

www.biorxiv.org

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 23d

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...

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Andrea Quagliariello @microquaglia.bsky.social · 27d

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

PANGENOME2025

The biology of prokaryotic cells is directly dependent on the differential gene pools that characterize each cell or strain. This has been a fundamental aspect of epidemiology for delimiting outbreaks...

www.alocongress.com

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 25d

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!

The landscape of microbial associations in human cancer

Differences between cancer types, infectious disease, and potential prognostic markers are uncovered by studying microbes within cancer DNA.

www.science.org

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · 25d

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KevinDKohl @kevindkohl.bsky.social · 26d

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"
🌾🐭🦠

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Experimental evolution of a mammalian holobiont: bank voles selected for herbivorous capability evolved distinct and robust gut bacterial communities

Abstract. According to the “hologenome” theory of evolution natural selection and evolution can act through a conglomerate biological unit, the “holobiont”

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Sandra Díaz Sánchez @sdiazsanchez.bsky.social · 25d

📢 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...

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · 28d

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/...

Robust, Open‐Source and Automation‐Friendly DNA Extraction Protocol for Hologenomic Research

Global efforts to standardise methodologies benefit greatly from open-source procedures that enable the generation of comparable data. Here, we present a modular, high-throughput nucleic acid extract...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Sep 3

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

Human fungi-associated variants (FAVs) associate with 9 fungal taxa and overlap protein-coding genes. A Manhattan plot shows all FAVs and their associated fungal taxa at the three significance levels (exploratory, black; genome-wide, red; study-wide, blue).

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

The Alliance at the EAAP meeting | International Phytobiomes Alliance

The Phytobiomes Alliance is an international, nonprofit alliance of industry, academic, and governmental partners. The Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the United States.Th...

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

The JEDI marker as a universal measure of planetary biodiversity

Despite its critical importance in the formation and maintenance of ecosystems and homeostasis on Earth, biodiversity remains a complex and non-unified concept. Consequently, standards for measuring g...

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · Aug 28

"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...

Leveraging machine learning to classify and characterize gene expression patterns in two coral diseases - Discover Applied Sciences

Anthropogenic climate change has had devastating effects on the Florida and Caribbean reef systems, in part due to increased disease outbreaks. Climate change exacerbates marine diseases by expanding ...

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · Aug 28

"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...

Selective nutrient incorporation may underestimate heterotrophy of a mixotrophic reef-building coral - Communications Biology

Fatty acid profiling and stable isotope analysis reveals selective nutrient incorporation in a common mixotrophic reef-building coral. This selective uptake underscores the potential for underestimati...

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holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · Aug 27

Analogously, think of the terms holoenzyme vs. enzyme. A host is conceptually the enzyme, and the microbe is then the cofactor...in a very simple binary form. Cofactors, like microbes, come and go to affect form and function.

holobiontbiology.bsky.social @holobiontbiology.bsky.social · Aug 27

The host and microbial genomes of a holobiont are collectively defined as a hologenome. Hologenome is fundamentally similar to the words genome and chromosome in that they all reflect different levels of biological information. The terms holobiont and hologenome are therefore structural definitions.

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