Entertaining myself this morning with Scott Gilbert’s “John Tyler Bonner and the holobiont life cycle.” #ISHPSSB19
“Animals don’t have life cycles, they *are* life cycles.” John T. Bonner, 1965
Co-development: individual animals do not preexist their mutualistic symbiotic interactions with microbes, which are an integral part of embryogenesis. #ISHPSSB19
Herbivory as a derived condition. It is much easier to eat detritus or meat. Requires very intricate symbiotic relationships, as those involved in bovine rumen development. #ISHPSSB19
Holobiont life cycle as the appropriate unit of co-development? #ISHPSSB19
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