A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals

By Scott F. Gilbert, Jan Sapp, A. Tauber. The Quarterly review of biology, 2012

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Subfields: Insect Science, Plant Science

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Organisms or biological individuals? Combining physiological and evolutionary individuality (2016, result): “The conception of a biological individual as endogenous and autonomous must be rejected, but not the idea of a biological individual in general – contrary to what Gilbert et al. (2012), for instance, have suggested.”
Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes (2015, background): “, holobionts, composed of hundreds to thousands of individual organisms [32,33,35,44].”
A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology (2018, background): “Importantly, these microbial symbionts play crucial roles in the survival, reproduction, and evolution of their hosts (Moran 2006; Gilbert et al. 2012).”
Holobionts as Units of Selection and a Model of Their Population Dynamics and Evolution (2018, background): “The hologenome concept of evolution has garnered support from many biologists (e.g., Fraune and Bosch 2010; Gilbert et al. 2012; Bordenstein and Theis 2015).”
Everything Flows : Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology (2018, background): “Importantly, these microbial symbionts play crucial roles in the survival, reproduction, and evolution of their hosts (Moran 2006; Gilbert et al. 2012).”
The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota (2014, background): “In a recent review, Gilbert et al. (2012) have reiterated this point by claiming, ‘‘We have never been individuals.’’”
It’s the song, not the singer: an exploration of holobiosis and evolutionary theory (2017, background): “…symbionts – as a critically important unit of anatomy, development, physiology, immunology, and evolution opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological subdisciplines have heretofore characterized living entities (Gilbert et al. 2012, 325).”