Clonal Plants as Meta-Holobionts
The holobiont concept defines a given organism and its associated symbionts as a potential level of selection over evolutionary time. In clonal plants, recent experiments demonstrated vertical transmission of part of the microbiota from one ramet (i.e., potentially autonomous individual) to another...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2019-03-01
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Series: | mSystems |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00213-18 |