Microbiomes and Host Health: The Importance of Host Self-Completion with Microbiota

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue entitled "Microbiomes and Host Health: The Importance of Host Self-Completion with Microbiota” aims to present recent research on any aspect of the relationship between microbiomes, specific microbiota, and host health. The host microbiome is critical for host self-completion as a multispecies holobiont and microbes serve as a front-line connection between the host and the external environment. Microbiota can regulate the development, function, protection, integrity, and pathology of host organs and tissues. As a result, attention to and management of the microbiome is key to host health, well-being, and longevity. Humans are the primary focus of this issue but a “One Health” comparative view of non-human self-completion with microbiota can be considered.

Some of its focal points for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Microbiota–host codevelopment;
2. Microbiota protection vs. promotion of host chronic diseases;
3. Host defense and microbiota;
4. Host risk from drugs and chemicals with antimicrobial activity;
5. Microbiota impact on systems biology;
6. Impact of microbiota on host aging, lifestage rhythms and cycles, and longevity;
7. Mood, emotions, and microbiota;
8. Host–environment interactions via microbiota ;
9. Effects of microbiota on host energy and metabolism;
10. Advances in research models for examining the microbiome and host health;
11. Risk-benefit considerations for microbiomes.

Reviews, original research, and communications will be welcome.

Prof. Dr. Rodney R. Dietert
Guest Editor

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