Insect pests cause significant agricultural and economic losses to crops worldwide due to
their destructive activities. Pesticides are designed to be poisonous and are intentionally …

Given one conception of biological individuality (evolutionary, physiological, etc.), can a
holobiont–that is the host+ its symbiotic (mutualistic, commensalist and parasitic) …

The gut is a first point of contact with ingested xenobiotics, where chemicals are metabolized
directly by the host or microbiota. Atrazine is a widely used pesticide, but the role of the …

The theory of evolution by natural selection is, perhaps, the crowning intellectual
achievement of the biological sciences. There is considerable debate, though, about which …

Animals are associated with a microbiome that can affect their reproductive success. It is,
therefore, important to understand how a host and its microbiome coevolve. According to the …

A growing literature demonstrates the impact of helminths on their host gut microbiome. We
investigated whether the stickleback host microbiome depends on ecoevolutionary variables …

Microbiomes are transmitted between generations by a variety of different vertical and/or
horizontal modes, including vegetative reproduction (vertical), via female germ cells …

According to the mainstream position in the bioethical definition of death debate, death is to
be equated with the cessation of an organism. Given such a perspective, some bioethicists …

We address the controversy in the literature concerning the definition of holobionts and the
apparent constraints on their evolution using concepts from community population genetics …

Abstract Bourrat and Griffiths (Hist Philos Life Sci 40 (2): 33, 2018) have recently argued that
most of the evidence presented by holobiont defenders to support the thesis that holobionts …