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Symbioses and Stress - Joint Ventures in Biology (Hardcover, 2010 Ed.)
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Symbioses and Stress - Joint Ventures in Biology (Hardcover, 2010 Ed.)
Series: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, 17
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When one picks up a multiauthored book in a series like this, one
wonders what will be distinctive about its contents. one wonders
about the "Concept of Symbiosis. " does it have the same meaning
for all authors and all potential readers? one is further tempted
to question the concept of stress. What is the meaning of the c-
cept of stress? Some change in the biotic or abiotic aspects of the
environment or habitat of the symbiotic partners? many might
support the more general def- tion of symbiosis credited to de bary
(1879), that symbiosis is the living together of separately named
organisms. Something like Smith's (1992) more restricted PoLLnPia
(P ermanent or Long-Lived intimate associations between diffe- ent
organisms, usually of different sizes, in which the larger
organism, the host, exploits the capabilities of one or more
smaller organisms) seems to be a better ft for a book centered on
the effects of stress on symbiosis. PoLLnPia implies an integrated
holobiont system that has adapted itself to living successfully in
a particular environment that could be construed as harsh for
nonsymbiotic s- tems. often, when queried for examples, one thinks
of lichens, of corals living in oligotrophic tropical waters, of
Pompeii worms living in association with che- lithotrophic
bacteria, and of all sorts of herbivorous animals living in
associations with microorganisms. Presumably, the hosts could not
survive, or thrive, in their habitats without their smaller
partners doing their trophic work for their holo- otic systems.
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