Artificially selecting microbial communities: If we can breed dogs, why not microbiomes?

Simulations reveal challenges to artificial community selection and possible strategies for success

(2019) Li Xie et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The evolution of the host microbiome as an ecosystem on a leash

(2017) Kevin R. Foster et al.   NATURE

Levels and limits in artificial selection of communities

(2015) Manuel Blouin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Engineering Microbiomes to Improve Plant and Animal Health

(2015) U.G. Mueller et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes

(2015) Seth R. Bordenstein et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Selection on soil microbiomes reveals reproducible impacts on plant function

(2014) Kevin Panke-Buisse et al.   ISME Journal

Life cycles, fitness decoupling and the evolution of multicellularity

(2014) Katrin Hammerschmidt et al.   NATURE

Microbial Communities as Experimental Units

(2011) Mitch D. Day et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Capturing the superorganism: a formal theory of group adaptation

(2009) A. GARDNER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY