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Msh Pilus Mutations Increase the Ability of a Free-Living Bacterium to Colonize a Piscine Host.
Genes - 20 Jan 2021
Lebov Jarrett F, Bohannan Brendan J M
Abstract excerpt
Symbioses between animals and bacteria are ubiquitous. To better understand these relationships, it is essential to unravel how bacteria evolve to colonize hosts. Previously, we serially passaged the free-living bacterium, Shewanella oneidensis, through the digestive tracts of germ-free larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) to uncover the evolutionary changes involved in the initiation of a novel symbiosis with a...
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