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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Host modification of a bacterial quorum-sensing signal induces a phenotypic switch in bacterial symbionts.

Cleo Pietschke, Christian Treitz, Sylvain Forêt, Annika Schultze, Sven Künzel, Andreas Tholey, Thomas C G Bosch, Sebastian Fraune

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Cleo PietschkeZoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
Christian TreitzInstitute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany.
Sylvain ForêtResearch School of Biology, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia.
Annika SchultzeZoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
Sven KünzelMax-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Plön, Germany.
Andreas TholeyInstitute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany.
Thomas C G BoschZoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
Sebastian FrauneZoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany; sfraune@zoologie.uni-kiel.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial communities colonize epithelial surfaces of most animals. Several factors, including the innate immune system, mucus composition, and diet, have been identified as determinants of host-associated bacterial communities. Here we show that the early branching metazoan

Indexed as

Symbiosis4-ButyrolactoneAnimalsComamonadaceaeGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialHydraOxidoreductasesPhenotypeQuorum SensingSignal Transduction4-Butyrolactonehomoserine lactoneOxidoreductaseshost–microbe interactionHydrainterferencequorum quenchingquorum sensing

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PMID28923926
PMCPMC5635886

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