Fundamentals of Microbiome Science ：How Microbes Shape Animal Biology

Publication subTitle ：How Microbes Shape Animal Biology

Author： Douglas Angela E.  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2018

E-ISBN: 9781400889822

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691160344

Subject： Q93 Microbiology

Keyword： 基础医学,微生物学,遗传学,生物演化与发展

Language： ENG

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An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is transforming the life sciences

This book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the fundamental principles of microbiome science, an exciting and fast-emerging new discipline that is reshaping many aspects of the life sciences. Resident microbes in healthy animals--including humans—can dictate many traits of the animal host. This animal microbiome is a second immune system conferring protection against pathogens; it can structure host metabolism in animals as diverse as reef corals and hibernating mammals; and it may influence animal behavior, from social recognition to emotional states. These microbial partners can also drive ecologically important traits, from thermal tolerance to diet, and have contributed to animal diversification over long evolutionary timescales.

Drawing on concepts and data across a broad range of disciplines and systems, Angela Douglas provides a conceptual framework for understanding these animal-microbe interactions while shedding critical light on the scientific challenges that lie ahead. Douglas explains why microbiome science demands creative and interdisciplinary thinking—the capacity to combine microbiology with animal physiology, ecological theory with immunology, and evolutionary perspectives with metabolic science.

An essential introduction to a cutting-edge field that is revolutionizing the life sciences

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CONTENTS

Preface

1 Introduction: Animals in a Microbial World

1.1. What Is An Animal?

1.2. Terminology: Dismantling the Tower of Babel

1.3. The Microbiology of Animals

1.4. Scope of this Book

2 The Ancient Roots of the Animal Microbiomes

2.1. Introduction

2.2. The Social Life of Bacteria

2.3. The Multiorganismal Origins of Eukaryotes

2.4. The Ubiquity of Microbial Associations in Eukaryotes

2.5. The Animal Condition

2.6. Summary

3 The Microbiome and Human Health

3.1. Introduction

3.2. The Biogeography of the Human Microbiome

3.3. How to Study Microbiota Effects on Human Health

3.4. The Microbiota and Human Disease

3.5. The Mass Extinction Event Within?

3.6. Summary

4 Defining the Rules of Engagement: The Microbiome and the Animal Immune System

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Immune Effectors and the Regulation of the Microbiota

4.3. The Effects of the Microbiota on Animal Immune Function

4.4. Symbiont-Mediated Protection: Microbiota as the Second Immune System

4.5. Summary

5 Microbial Drivers of Animal Behavior

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Microbes and Animal Feeding Behavior

5.3. Microbial Arbiters of Mental Well-Being

5.4. Microbes and Animal Communication

5.5. Summary

6 The Inner Ecosystem of Animals

6.1. Introduction

6.2. The Abundance and Distribution of Animal-Associated Microorganisms

6.3. Ecological Processes Shaping Microbial Communities in Animals

6.4. Functions of the Inner Ecosystem

6.5. Summary

7 Evolutionary Processes and Consequences

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Costs and Benefits

7.3. Evolutionary Specialization and Its Consequences

7.4. Symbiosis as the Evolutionary Engine of Diversification

7.5. Summary

8 The Animal Reimagined

8.1. Introduction

8.2. The Scope of the Animal

8.3. The Determinants of Animal Phenotype

8.4. The Animal in the Anthropocene

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Index

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