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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 69, Issue 12, Pages 7527-7530Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.12.7527-7530.2003
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM059690, GM59690] Funding Source: Medline
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Newly hatched juveniles of the Hawaiian squid Euprymna scolopes rapidly become colonized by the bioluminescent marine bacterium Vthrio fischeri. Motility is required to establish the symbiotic colonization, but the role of chemotaxis is unknown. In this study we analyzed chemotaxis of V. fischeri to a number of potential attractants. The bacterium migrated toward serine and most sugars tested. V. fischeri also exhibited the unusual ability to migrate to nucleosides and nucleotides as well as to N-acetylneuraminic acid, a component of squid mucus.
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