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Recruitment in the sea: bacterial genes required for inducing larval settlement in a polychaete worm.
Scientific reports - 1 Jan 2012
Huang Ying, Callahan Sean, Hadfield Michael G
Abstract excerpt
Metamorphically competent larvae of the marine tubeworm Hydroides elegans can be induced to metamorphose by biofilms of the bacterium Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea strain HI1. Mutational analysis was used to identify four genes that are necessary for metamorphic induction and encode functions that may be related to cell adhesion and bacterial secretion systems. No major differences in biofilm characteristics,...
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