Microbiome-Aware Ecotoxicology of Organisms: Relevance, Pitfalls, and Challenges

Over the last 15 years, the advent of high-throughput "omics" techniques has revealed the multiple roles and interactions occurring among hosts, their microbial partners and their environment. This microbiome revolution has radically changed our views of biology, evolution, and individuali...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in public health 2020-08, Vol.8, p.407
Hauptverfasser: Duperron, Sébastien, Halary, Sébastien, Gallet, Alison, Marie, Benjamin
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Zusammenfassung:Over the last 15 years, the advent of high-throughput "omics" techniques has revealed the multiple roles and interactions occurring among hosts, their microbial partners and their environment. This microbiome revolution has radically changed our views of biology, evolution, and individuality. Sitting at the interface between a host and its environment, the microbiome is a relevant yet understudied compartment for ecotoxicology research. Various recent works confirm that the microbiome reacts to and interacts with contaminants, with consequences for hosts and ecosystems. In this paper, we thus advocate for the development of a "microbiome-aware ecotoxicology" of organisms. We emphasize its relevance and discuss important conceptual and technical pitfalls associated with study design and interpretation. We identify topics such as functionality, quantification, temporality, resilience, interactions, and prediction as major challenges and promising venues for microbiome research applied to ecotoxicology.
ISSN:2296-2565
2296-2565
DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00407