Symbiotic Conversations Are Revealed Under Genetic Interrogation

Overview

Journal Nat Rev Microbiol

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Microbiology

Date 2008 Sep 17

PMID 18794913

Citations 77

Authors

Edward G Ruby

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Abstract

The recent development and application of molecular genetics to the symbionts of invertebrate animal species have advanced our knowledge of the biochemical communication that occurs between the host and its bacterial symbionts. In particular, the ability to manipulate these associations experimentally by introducing genetic variants of the symbionts into naive hosts has allowed the discovery of novel colonization mechanisms and factors. In addition, the role of the symbionts in inducing normal host development has been revealed, and its molecular basis described. In this Review, I discuss many of these developments, focusing on what has been discovered in five well-understood model systems.

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