`Ome Sweet `Omics--A Genealogical Treasury of Words

By J. Lederberg, Alexa T. McCray. 2001

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The Microbiome and the Respiratory Tract (2015, background): “The term “microbiome” was first proposed in 2001 by Joshua Lederberg, who used it to refer to “the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space” (1).”
Exploring interactions of plant microbiomes (2014, methodology): “The word ‘microbiome’ was first used by Joshua Lederberg as the “ecological community of commensal microorganisms, symbionts or pathogens, that literally occupy a space in our body” (Lederberg and McCray, 2001).”
Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges (2020, background): “microbiome definition by Lederberg and McCray [42].”
Effects of probiotics on gut microbiota: mechanisms of intestinal immunomodulation and neuromodulation (2013, background): “Gut microbiota and their effects on the human health The concept of the human microbiome was first introduced to the scientific community by Joshua Lederberg, who defined it as ‘the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space and ha”
Holobionts as Units of Selection and a Model of Their Population Dynamics and Evolution (2018, background): “Following Lederberg and McCray (2001), a microbiome refers to an “ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms” that shares the “body space” of a host.”
Global Optimization Algorithms -- Theory and Application (2009, background): “In dependence on genetic algorithms, we often refer to the search space synonymously as genome(24), a term coined by the German biologist Winkler [38] as a portmanteau of the words gene and chromosome [39].”
Defining the Human Microbiome (2012, background): “Just as the question, “what is it to be human?”, has troubled humans from the beginning of recorded history, the question, “what is the human microbiome?” has troubled researchers since the term was coined by Joshua Lederberg in 2001 [4].”