Lessons from a cooperative, bacterial-animal association: The Vibrio fischeri-Euprymna scolopes light organ symbiosis

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 591-624

  Ruby, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

colonization; development; luminescence; mutagenesis; specificity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; HOST; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SQUID; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DECAPODIFORMES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CEPHALOPODA; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; SCOLOPES; SEPIOLIDAE; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 0029837341     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.591     Document Type: Review

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