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ecosystem on a leash: a standalone construct

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Microbiome research

host microbiomes evolve as communities whose members are selected for their own success but constrained by host control.

In microbiome research, ecosystem on a leash refers to host microbiomes evolve as communities whose members are selected for their own success but constrained by host control. This meaning comes from Foster (2017) in Nature.[1]

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control4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs ecosystem3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs host2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Foster, K. R., Schluter, J., Coyte, K. Z., & Rakoff-Nahoum, S. (2017). The evolution of the host microbiome as an ecosystem on a leash. Nature, 548(7665), 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23292

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