title: The Global Synanthrome Project: A Call for an Exhaustive Study of Human Associates.
abstract: Here we coin the term synanthrome to describe all of the species we interact with. We propose that the time is now here for The Global Synanthrome Project to describe all of our interacting species and how they have changed through time and across space. This effort must involve natural history, ecology, and evolutionary biology in addition to genomics studies that are already underway.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, NC, USA; Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. Electronic address: rrdunn@ncsu.edu.
authors.forename: Robert R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Charles L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Nunn
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, USA; Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Julie E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Horvath
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017753:Ecosystem; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D013559:Symbiosis
keywords: chimpanzees; humans; parasites; pathogens; symbiosis; synanthrome