Main description:

This book examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of protist-, animal-, and plant-bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of biology. The establishment and maintenance of these interactions and their contributions to the health and survival of all partners relies on continuous cell-to-cell communication between them. This dialogue may be concerned with all aspects of the biology of both partners. The book includes chapters devoted to exploring, explaining, and exposing these dialogues across a broad spectrum of plant and animal eukaryotes to a broad field of biologists.

Key Features

Explores the nature of the interactions between eukaryotic hosts and their microbial symbionts

Examines the links between prostist, animal, and plant evolution and microbial communities

Reviews specific taxa and the microbial diversity associated with these taxa

Illustrates the role microbes play in the physiology and etiology of several model species

Includes chapters by an international team of leading scholars

Contents:

Series Preface

Preface

Editors

Contributors
Chapter 1 When does symbiosis begin? Bacterial cues necessary for metamorphosis in the marine polychaete Hydroides elegans - Marnie Freckelton and Brian T. Nedved

Chapter 2 The language of symbiosis: insights from protist biology - Morgan J. Colp and John M. Archibald

Chapter 3 Trichoplax and its bacteria: How many are there? Are they speaking? - Michael G. Hadfield and Margaret J. McFall-Ngai

Chapter 4 Decoding cellular dialogues between sponges, bacteria and phages - Lara Schmittmann, Martin T. Jahn, Lucia Pita and Ute Hentschel

Chapter 5 Symbiotic interactions in the holobiont Hydra - Jay Bathia and Thomas C.G. Bosch

Chapter 6 Hydra and Curvibacter - an intimate crosstalk at the epithelial interface - Timo Minten-Lange and Sebastian Fraune

Chapter 7 The coral holobiont highlights the dependence of cnidarian animal hosts on their

associated microbes - Claudia Pogoreutz, Christian R Voolstra, Nils Radecker, Virginia Weis, Anny Cardenas and Jean-Baptiste Raina

Chapter 8 Extra-intestinal regulation of the gut microbiome: The case of C. elegans TGF /SMA signaling - Rebecca Choi, Dan Kim, Stacy Li, Meril Massot, Vivek Narayan, Samuel Slowinski, Hinrich Schulenburg and Michael Shapira

Chapter 9 Multiple roles of bacterially produced natural products in the bryozoan Bugula neritina - Nicole B. Lopanik

Chapter 10 The molecular dialogue through ontogeny between a squid host and its luminous symbiont - Margaret J. McFall-Ngai

Chapter 11 Evolving integrated multipartite symbioses between plant-sap feeding insects (Hemiptera) and their endosymbionts - Gordon Bennett

Chapter 12 Symbiosis for insect cuticle formation - Hisashi Anbutsu and Takema Fukatsu

Chapter 13 Microbial determinants of folivory in insects - Aileen Berasategui and Hassan Salem

Chapter 14 Right on cue: microbiota promote plasticity of zebrafish digestive tract - Michelle S. Massaquoi and Karen J. Guillemin

Chapter 15 Uncovering the history of intestinal host-microbiome interactions through vertebrate comparative genomics - Colin R. Lickwar and John F. Rawls

Chapter 16 Molecular interactions of microbes and the plant phyllosphere: The phyllosphere microbiome is shaped by the interplay of secreted microbial molecules and the plant immune system - Janine Haueisen, Cecile Lorrain and Eva H. Stukenbrock

Chapter 17 Summing up: Cellular dialogues between hosts and microbial symbionts: generalities emerging - Michael C. G. Hadfield and Thomas G. Bosch