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. 2021 Sep 24;11:19007. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98097-3

Figure 6.

Figure 6

A mechanism for the “It’s the song, not the singer” theory applied to holobionts, created with biorender (https://biorender.com/). The vertically transmitted microbiota initiates an ecological succession in the functional space, which requires the arrival of horizontally transmitted symbionts. The final stable state reached is the same as in the previous generation, which implies the conservation of the functional composition across generations.