Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

• Main Authors: Hadfield, Michael G., Bosch, Thomas C. G., Carey, Hannah V., Douglas, Angela E., Gilbert, Scott F., Knoll, Andrew H., Kremer, Natacha., Mazmanian, Sarkis K., Metcalf, Jessica L., Pierce, Naomi E., Rawls, John F., Ruby, Edward G., Sanders, Jon G., Wernegreen, Jennifer J., McFall-Ngai, Margaret, Domazet-Lošo, Tomislav, Dubilier, Nicole, Eberl, Gerard, Fukami, Tadashi, Tautz, Diethard, Hentschel, Ute, King, Nicole, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Nealson, Kenneth, Reid, Ann, Rumpho, Mary
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98606; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18426
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the last two decades, the widespread application of genetic and genomic approaches has revealed a bacterial world astonishing in its ubiquity and diversity. This review examines how a growing knowledge of the vast range of animal–bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate sy...