A polysemous term, the environment can be defined as “all the natural and cultural conditions that can act on living organisms and human activities*”. This statement has given rise to the concept of the exposome, i.e. all the exposure (chemical, biological, physical, psychosocial, stress, etc.) encountered by an individual during their life. There are many repercussions from this exposure, of varying degrees of visibility, and this raises the question of the mechanisms brought into play. However, as Marc-André Selosse highlights in his article “the story of life is first and foremost that of the microbes”. It therefore seemed clear to us that this 10th anniversary year of the Revue des Microbiotes should be brought to a close by devoting this issue to the interactions between microbiota and environment, and to their impacts on health, following on from the symposium organized on this theme.
The La Revue des Microbiotes committee
*Source : Le Robert.
