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Intraspecific Competition Impacts Vibrio fischeri Strain Diversity during Initial Colonization of the Squid Light Organ.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 15 May 2016
Sun Yan, LaSota Elijah D, Cecere Andrew G, LaPenna Kyle B, Larios-Valencia Jessie, Wollenberg Michael S, Miyashiro Tim
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UNLABELLED: Animal development and physiology depend on beneficial interactions with microbial symbionts. In many cases, the microbial symbionts are horizontally transmitted among hosts, thereby making the acquisition of these microbes from the environment an important event within the life history of each host. The light organ symbiosis established between the Hawaiian squid Euprymna scolopes and the...
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