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Microbiotas are Part of Holobiont Fitness

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The concept of fitness is central to the Darwinian theory of natural selection—the fittest survive and spread their advantageous traits through populations, but there are many definitions of biological fitness. The following qualitative definition of fitness will suffice for the purposes of this chapter: The propensity of a holobiont to survive and reproduce in a specified environment and population.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

—Charles Darwin

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Rosenberg, E., Zilber-Rosenberg, I. (2013). Microbiotas are Part of Holobiont Fitness. In: The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04241-1_5

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