ArticleEnvironmental microbiology2012
Polyphyly of non-bioluminescent Vibrio fischeri sharing a lux-locus deletion.
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- You Talking to Me? Quorum Sensing in Symbiotic Microbes and Their Response to Environmental Variation.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Lighting the way: how theJournal of bacteriology · 2024Review
- Acquisition of bioluminescent trait by non-luminous organisms from luminous organisms through various origins.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2021Review
- A lasting symbiosis: how Vibrio fischeri finds a squid partner and persists within its natural host.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2021Review
- Diversity and evolution of bacterial bioluminescence genes in the global ocean.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2020Article
- Adaptation to pH stress byMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2020Article
- Ambient pH Alters the Protein Content of Outer Membrane Vesicles, Driving Host Development in a Beneficial Symbiosis.Journal of bacteriology · 2019Article
- Acidic pH promotes lipopolysaccharide modification and alters colonization in a bacteria-animal mutualism.Molecular microbiology · 2019Article
- A genomic comparison of 13 symbiotic Vibrio fischeri isolates from the perspective of their host source and colonization behavior.The ISME journal · 2016Article
- Characterization of the Vibrio fischeri Fatty Acid Chemoreceptors, VfcB and VfcB2.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2016Article
- The importance of microbes in animal development: lessons from the squid-vibrio symbiosis.Annual review of microbiology · 2014Review
- Shedding light on bioluminescence regulation in Vibrio fischeri.Molecular microbiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
This study reports the first description and molecular characterization of naturally occurring, non-bioluminescent strains of Vibrio fischeri. These 'dark' V. fischeri strains remained non-bioluminescent even after treatment with both autoinducer and aldehyde, substrate additions that typically maximize light production in dim strains of luminous bacteria. Surprisingly, the entire lux locus (eight genes) was absent in over 97% of these dark V. fischeri strains. Although these strains were all collected from a Massachusetts (USA) estuary in 2007, phylogenetic reconstructions allowed us to reject the hypothesis that these newly described non-bioluminescent strains exhibit monophyly within the V. fischeri clade. These dark strains exhibited a competitive disadvantage against native bioluminescent strains when colonizing the light organ of the model V. fischeri host, the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes. Significantly, we believe that the data collected in this study may suggest the first observation of a functional, parallel locus-deletion event among independent lineages of a non-pathogenic bacterial species.
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