245 00 |a Cellular dialogues in the holobiont / |c edited by Thomas C.G. Bosch, Michael G. Hadfield.

520 __ |a "This book examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of animal- and plant- bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of biology. The establishment and maintenance of these interactions and their contributions to the health and survival of all partners relies on continuous cell-to-cell communication between them. This dialogue may be concerned with all aspects of the biology of both partners. The book includes chapters devoted to exploring, explaining and exposing these dialogues across a broad spectrum of plant and animal eukaryotes to a broad field of biologists"-- |c Provided by publisher.