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Why the evolution of heritable symbiosis neither enhances nor diminishes the fitness of a symbiont
symbiosis
heritability
symbiogenesis
niche construction
One of the current problems in microbiology concerns the understanding of fitness in host-symbiont systems. A great deal of research and conceptual work has analysed how the host benefits from such associations; however, very little of this work has attempted to take the microbial perspective. Nevertheless, some scientists have argued that we should conduct more comparative studies of both microorganisms that interact with a host and their free-living counterparts in order to determine whether or not symbiosis is beneficial for these microorganisms. In this paper, by means of analysing heritable symbiosis as a case study, I intend to provide a different perspective on this subject. Mainly, I argue that asking how the fitness of a given microorganism was changed during the evolution of heritable symbiosis may be theoretically unjustified at both the early and late stages of this process. The reason for this, I argue, is that, during the evolution of heritable symbiosis, the fitness of a microorganism becomes incommensurable with that of its free-living counterparts because their contexts become radically different; therefore, comparing their fitness makes little sense. My analysis is driven by the use of the ecological concept of fitness; accordingly, my conclusions are bound to this specific interpretation of fitness.
dc.abstract.en | One of the current problems in microbiology concerns the understanding of fitness in host-symbiont systems. A great deal of research and conceptual work has analysed how the host benefits from such associations; however, very little of this work has attempted to take the microbial perspective. Nevertheless, some scientists have argued that we should conduct more comparative studies of both microorganisms that interact with a host and their free-living counterparts in order to determine whether or not symbiosis is beneficial for these microorganisms. In this paper, by means of analysing heritable symbiosis as a case study, I intend to provide a different perspective on this subject. Mainly, I argue that asking how the fitness of a given microorganism was changed during the evolution of heritable symbiosis may be theoretically unjustified at both the early and late stages of this process. The reason for this, I argue, is that, during the evolution of heritable symbiosis, the fitness of a microorganism becomes incommensurable with that of its free-living counterparts because their contexts become radically different; therefore, comparing their fitness makes little sense. My analysis is driven by the use of the ecological concept of fitness; accordingly, my conclusions are bound to this specific interpretation of fitness. | pl |
dc.affiliation | Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Filozofii | pl |
dc.contributor.author | Stencel, Adrian - 222688 | pl |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-24T15:56:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-24T15:56:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | pl |
dc.date.openaccess | 0 | |
dc.description.accesstime | w momencie opublikowania | |
dc.description.additional | Part of a special issue, Contributed Papers from the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Holobionts, Bordeaux, November 6-8, 2017. Artykuł recenzowany | pl |
dc.description.version | ostateczna wersja wydawcy | |
dc.description.volume | 14 | pl |
dc.identifier.articleid | 4 | pl |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3998/ptpbio.2098 | pl |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2475-3025 | pl |
dc.identifier.project | 2017/27/B/HS1/00290 | pl |
dc.identifier.uri | https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/306702 | |
dc.language | eng | pl |
dc.language.container | eng | pl |
dc.rights | Udzielam licencji. Uznanie autorstwa 3.0 Polska | * |
dc.rights.licence | CC-BY | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode | * |
dc.share.type | otwarte czasopismo | |
dc.subject.en | symbiosis | pl |
dc.subject.en | heritability | pl |
dc.subject.en | symbiogenesis | pl |
dc.subject.en | niche construction | pl |
dc.subtype | Article | pl |
dc.title | Why the evolution of heritable symbiosis neither enhances nor diminishes the fitness of a symbiont | pl |
dc.title.journal | Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology | pl |
dc.type | JournalArticle | pl |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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