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Interactions of Symbiotic Partners Drive the Development of a Complex Biogeography in the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis.
mBio - 26 May 2020
Essock-Burns Tara, Bongrand Clotilde, Goldman William E, Ruby Edward G, McFall-Ngai Margaret J
Abstract excerpt
Microbes live in complex microniches within host tissues, but how symbiotic partners communicate to create such niches during development remains largely unexplored. Using confocal microscopy and symbiont genetics, we characterized the shaping of host microenvironments during light organ colonization of the squid Euprymna scolopes by the bacterium Vibrio fischeri During embryogenesis, three pairs of invaginations...
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