Animal hosts have initiated myriad symbiotic associations with microorganisms and often
have maintained these symbioses for millions of years, spanning drastic changes in …

From protists to humans, all animals and plants are inhabited by microbial organisms. There
is an increasing appreciation that these resident microbes influence the fitness of their plant …

Genetic diversity of closely related free-living microorganisms is widespread and underpins
ecosystem functioning, but most evolutionary theories predict that it destabilizes intimate …

Sponges host dense and diverse communities of microbes (known as the microbiome)
beneficial for the host nutrition and defense. Symbionts in turn receive shelter and …

Symbiotic associations between bacteria and eukaryotes exhibit a range of transmission
strategies. The rates and distributions of transmission modes have not been thoroughly …

Bacterial communities are fundamental symbionts of corals. However, the process by which
bacterial communities are acquired across the life history of corals, particularly in larval and …

Hosts of chemoautotrophic bacteria typically have much higher biomass than their
symbionts and consume symbiont cells for nutrition. In contrast to this, chemoautotrophic …

Bacterial symbionts bring a wealth of functions to the associations they participate in, but by
doing so, they endanger the genes and genomes underlying these abilities. When bacterial …

The scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents in
the Indian Ocean relies on its sulphur-oxidising gammaproteobacterial endosymbionts for …

Eukaryotes are habitats for bacterial organisms where the host colonization and dispersal
among individual hosts have consequences for the bacterial ecology and evolution. Vertical …