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A community perspective on the concept of marine holobionts: state-of-the-art, challenges, and future directions

Simon Dittami 1 Enrique Arboleda 2 J.-C. Auguet 3 Arite Bigalke 4 Enora Briand 5 Paco Cárdenas 6 Ulisse Cardini 7 Johan Decelle 8 Ashwin Engelen 9 Damien Eveillard 10, 11 Claire Gachon 12 Sarah Griffiths 13 Tilmann Harder 14 Ehsan Kayal 15 Elena Kazamia 16 François Lallier 17 Mónica Medina 18 Ezequiel Marzinelli 19, 20, 21 Teresa Morganti 22 Laura Pons 7 Soizic Prado 23 José Pintado Valverde 24 Mahasweta Saha 25, 26 Marc-Andre Selosse 27, 28 Derek Skillings 29 Willem Stock 30 Shinichi Sunagawa 31 Eve Toulza 32 Alexey Vorobev 33 Catherine Leblanc 34 Fabrice Not 35
1 LBI2M - Laboratoire de Biologie Intégrative des Modèles Marins
2 SBR - Station biologique de Roscoff
3 UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation
4 Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
5 IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
6 Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden
7 SZN - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
8 Laboratoire de physiologie cellulaire végétale
9 CCMAR - Centre of Marine Sciences [Faro]
10 LS2N - Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes
11 COMBI - Combinatoire et Bioinformatique
LS2N - Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes
12 Scottish Association for Marine Science
13 School of Science and the Environment
14 University of Bremen
15 FR2424 - ABiMS - Informatique et bioinformatique = Analysis and Bioinformatics for Marine Science
16 IBENS - Institut de biologie de l'ENS Paris
17 ABICE - Adaptation et Biologie des Invertébrés en Conditions Extrêmes
AD2M - Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin
18 Penn State - Pennsylvania State University
19 Faculty of Science, School of Life and Environmental Sciences
20 SCELSE - Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering [Singapore]
21 USIMS - University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science
22 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
23 MCAM - Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes
24 IIM CSIC
25 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research [Kiel]
26 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex
27 OSEB - Origine, structure et évolution de la biodiversité
28 University of Gdansk
29 University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia]
30 Laboratory of Protistology & Aquatic Ecology
31 Institute of Microbiology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
32 IHPE - Interactions Hôtes-Pathogènes-Environnements
33 CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
34 LBI2M - Laboratoire de Biologie Intégrative des Modèles Marins
35 AD2M - Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin
Abstract : Host-microbe interactions play crucial roles in marine ecosystems, but we still have very little understanding of the mechanisms that govern these relationships, the evolutionary processes that shape them, and their ecological consequences. The holobiont concept is a renewed paradigm in biology that can help describe and understand these complex systems. It posits that a host and its associated microbiota, living together in a long-lasting relationship, form the holobiont, and have to be studied together, as a coherent biological and functional unit, in order to understand the biology, ecology and evolution of the organisms. Here we discuss critical concepts and opportunities in marine holobiont research and identify key challenges in the field. We highlight the potential economic, sociological, and environmental impacts of the holobiont concept in marine biological, evolutionary, and environmental sciences with comparisons to terrestrial science whenever appropriate. A deeper understanding of such complex systems, however, will require further technological and conceptual advances. The most significant challenge will be to bridge functional research on simple and tractable model systems and global approaches. This will require scientists to work together as an (inter)active community in order to address, for instance, ecological and evolutionary questions and the roles of holobionts in biogeochemical cycles.
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Simon Dittami, Enrique Arboleda, J.-C. Auguet, Arite Bigalke, Enora Briand, et al.. A community perspective on the concept of marine holobionts: state-of-the-art, challenges, and future directions. PeerJ Preprints, Computer Science Preprints., 2019, 7, pp.e27519v1. ⟨10.7287/peerj.preprints.27519v1⟩. ⟨hal-02169877⟩

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