Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois 60153
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Newlyhatched juveniles of the Hawaiian squid
Euprymna scolopes
rapidly become colonized by the bioluminescent marine bacterium
Vibrio 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.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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