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Metazoan: Multicellular eukaryotic organisms containing fully differentiated tissues, including humans and other animals.
Hologenome and Holobiont: The hologenome associated with a particular metazoan organism (such as humans or other animals) can be defined as the collective genetic material of the eukaryotic host organism plus that of all its associated mutualistic microbial symbiotes. The host species plus attendant microbes is referred to as the holobiont.
Coevolution: Reciprocal evolutionary changes in two or more interacting species (e.g., human host and resident microbes) driven by natural selection.
Microbiome: Can be generally defined as the collection of microorganisms that populate a given habitat. For host-associated microbiomes (such as the human microbiome), this may be further defined as the total community of commensal, mutualistic, and pathogenic microbes that normally constitute long-term residents at various body sites.
Metagenome: The collective genomes...
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Ogilvie, L.A., Jones, B.V. (2013). The Human Gut Mobile Metagenome: A Metazoan Perspective. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_782-1
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