Bacteria that makes the Hawaiian bobtail squid bioluminescent also dictate when it expresses a gene that encodes circadian rhythm-controlling proteins, according to a paper due to be published in mBio ...

Blacksburg, Va., February 7, 2005 – The opportunity to annotate the genome of the glow-in-the-dark bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, which lives in symbiotic harmony within the light organ of the bobtail ...

Nearly every organism hosts a collection of symbiotic microbes--a microbiome. It is now recognized that microbiomes are major drivers of health in all animals, including humans, and that these ...

A laboratory evolution experiment involving squids and bioluminescent bacteria sheds light on the origins of bacterial symbiosis. Hawaiian bobtail squid and its light organ (1). Bacteria can be our ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...