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Competition between Vibrio fischeri strains during initiation and maintenance of a light organ symbiosis.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Apr 1994
Lee K H, Ruby E G
Abstract excerpt
Colonization of the light-emitting organ of the Hawaiian squid Euprymna scolopes is initiated when the nascent organ of a newly hatched squid becomes inoculated with Vibrio fischeri cells present in the ambient seawater. Although they are induced for luminescence in the light organ, these symbiotic strains are characteristically non-visibly luminous (NVL) when grown in laboratory culture. The more typical visibly...
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