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    Where Simplicity Meets Complexity: Hydra, a Model for Host–Microbe Interactions

    For a long time, the main purpose of microbiology and immunology was to study pathogenic bacteria and infectious disease; the potential benefit of commensal bacteria remained unrecognised. Discovering that ind...

    René Augustin, Sebastian Fraune, Sören Franzenburg in Recent Advances on Model Hosts (2012)

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    Hydra Go Bacterial

    This chapter provides an overview of how the basal metazoan Hydra serves as model for untangling and dissecting the fundamental principles underlying complex host–microbe interactions.

    Thomas C. G. Bosch in Beneficial Microorganisms in Multicellular… (2011)