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ReviewCurrent topics in developmental biology2021

Animal development in the microbial world: The power of experimental model systems.

Margaret McFall-Ngai, Thomas C G Bosch

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Review in Current topics in developmental biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evolution of the ocular immune system.Eye (London, England) · 2025
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  4. Microorganisms · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Margaret McFall-NgaiPacific Biosciences Research Center, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States. Electronic address: mcfallng@hawaii.edu.
Thomas C G BoschZoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany.

Funding

The Control of Insect Metabolism through Nutrition-based SymbiosisP20GM125508 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI Anthony Amend · 2018 to 2026
$21.2M
Vibrio fischeri as a Model for Bacterial ColonizationR37AI050661 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI MARGARET J MC FALL-NGAI, Edward G Ruby · 2018 to 2026
$5.4M
Vibrio fischeri as a model of Bacterial ColonizationR01AI050661 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MC FALL-NGAI, MARGARET J, RUBY, EDWARD G · 2002 to 2016
$5.0M
Vibrio Virulence Determinants in a Benign ColonizationR01OD011024 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MC FALL-NGAI, MARGARET J, RUBY, EDWARD G · 2012 to 2020
$3.9M
Vibrio colonization determinants in symbiosisR01GM135254 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI MC FALL-NGAI, MARGARET J, RUBY, EDWARD G · 2020 to 2023
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI050661NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI050661NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM125508NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM135254NIH HHS R01 OD011024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of powerful model systems has been a critical strategy for understanding the mechanisms underlying the progression of an animal through its ontogeny. Here we provide two examples that allow deep and mechanistic insight into the development of specific animal systems. Species of the cnidarian genus Hydra have provided excellent models for studying host-microbe interactions and how metaorganisms function in vivo. Studies of the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes and its luminous bacterial partner Vibrio fischeri have been used for over 30 years to understand the impact of a broad array of levels, from ecology to genomics, on the development and persistence of symbiosis. These examples provide an integrated perspective of how developmental processes work and evolve within the context of a microbial world, a new view that opens vast horizons for developmental biology research. The Hydra and the squid systems also lend an example of how profound insights can be discovered by taking advantage of the "experiments" that evolution had done in shaping conserved developmental processes.

Indexed as

MicrobiotaAliivibrio fischeriAnimalsDecapodiformesEmbryo, NonmammalianGene Expression RegulationHydraLightSymbiosisWnt Signaling PathwayEpithelial-bacterial interactionsEvo devoHolobiontHydraSquid-vibrioSymbiosis

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PMID33602493
PMCPMC8211120

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