Marine holobionts: a model arena for host–microbe biology, from ecosystem function to biotechnology
Microbial symbioses are the operating system of marine biology. Nearly every macroscopic organism in the ocean exists as a holobiont, the consortium composed of a eukaryotic host and its bacterial, archaeal, microeukaryotic and viral partners. Marine holobionts span a broader range of the metazoan tree of life than l...