Vibrio fischeri bioluminescence inhibition bioassay (VFBIA) has been widely applied for the
monitoring of toxicity on account of multiple advantages encompassing shorter test duration …

Quorum sensing (QS) is a microbial cell-to-cell communication process that relies on the
production and detection of chemical signals called autoinducers (AIs) to monitor cell …

Bacteria communicate with one another using chemical signal molecules. As in higher
organisms, the information supplied by these molecules is critical for synchronizing the …

Quorum sensing is a cell-cell communication process in which bacteria use the production
and detection of extracellular chemicals called autoinducers to monitor cell population …

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) serotype O157: H7 is a human pathogen
responsible for outbreaks of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) …

Most symbiotic associations between animals and microorganisms are horizontally
transmitted—the microorganisms are acquired from the environment by each generation of …

Vibrios are ubiquitous bacteria in aquatic systems, especially marine ones, and belong to
the Gammaproteobacteria class, the most diverse class of Gram-negative bacteria. The main …

The animal and bacterial kingdoms have coevolved and coadapted in response to
environmental selective pressures over hundreds of millions of years. The meta'omics …

Quorum sensing is widely recognized as an efficient mechanism to regulate expression of
specific genes responsible for communal behavior in bacteria. Several bacterial phenotypes …

Genetically altered or tagged Vibrio fischeri strains can be observed in association with their
mutualistic host Euprymna scolopes, providing powerful experimental approaches for …