Daniel M Chevrier, Amélie Juhin, Nicolas Menguy, Romain Bolzoni, Paul E D Soto-Rodriguez, Mila Kojadinovic-Sirinelli, Greig A Paterson, Rachid Belkhou, Wyn Williams, Fériel Skouri-Panet, Artemis Kosta, Hugo Le Guenno, Eva Pereiro, Damien Faivre, Karim Benzerara, Caroline L Monteil, Christopher T Lefevre
Over the last few decades, symbiosis and the concept of holobiont-a host entity with a population of symbionts-have gained a central role in our understanding of life functioning and diversification. Regardless of the type of partner interactions, understanding how the biophysical properties of each individual symbiont and their assembly may generate collective behaviors at the holobiont scale remains a fundamental challenge. This is particularly intriguing in the case of the newly discovered magnetotactic holobionts (MHB) whose motility relies on a collective magnetotaxis (i...
March 7, 2023: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America