Fundamentals of Microbiome Science: How Microbes Shape Animal Biology

An essential introduction to microbiome science, a new cutting-edge discipline that is transforming the life sciences

This book provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the fundamental principles of microbiome science, an exciting and fast-emerging new discipline that is reshaping many aspects of the life sciences. Resident microbes in healthy animals—including humans—can dictate many traits of the animal host. This animal microbiome is a second immune system conferring protection a...