EDITORIAL
Over the past 2 years, we have made a concerted effort to expand the number and scope of minireviews published in mBio in order to help readers keep track of developments across the breadth of microbiology. In our conversations exploring potential subjects for minireviews, a topic emerged—the holobiont/hologenome concept—that was relevant to so many areas and of such high current interest that we decided it might serve as the basis for a collection of minireviews. The ensemble of articles comprising the current series is the result. We are grateful to the many authors who contributed manuscripts and to Margaret McFall-Ngai, who wrote the excellent introduction to the collection. This mBio series will certainly elicit vigorous discussion of what has become a topic of some controversy, and we invite discussants to submit their views in letters to the editor in mBio. We also invite suggestions of other topics of broad interest that might serve as the basis for additional collections of minireviews in mBio.
The views expressed in this Editorial do not necessarily reflect the views of this journal or of ASM.