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Population structure between environmentally transmitted vibrios and bobtail squids using nested clade analysis.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2006
Jones B W, Lopez J E, Huttenburg J, Nishiguchi M K
Abstract excerpt
Squids from the genus Euprymna (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) and their symbiotic bacteria Vibrio fischeri form a mutualism in which vibrios inhabit a complex light organ within the squid host. A host-mediated daily expulsion event seeds surrounding seawater with symbiotically capable V. fischeri that environmentally colonize newly hatched axenic Euprymna juveniles. Competition experiments using native and non-native...
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