A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner

SV Nyholm, MJ McFall-Ngai - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
For more than 30 years, the association between the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna
scolopes, and the bioluminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri has been studied as a model …

A symbiotic view of life: we have never been individuals

SF Gilbert, J Sapp, AI Tauber - The Quarterly review of …, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology,
evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological subdisciplines …

Innate immune recognition of the microbiota promotes host-microbial symbiosis

H Chu, SK Mazmanian - Nature immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) are traditionally known to sense microbial molecules
during infection to initiate inflammatory responses. However, ligands for PRRs are not …

The importance of microbes in animal development: lessons from the squid-vibrio symbiosis

MJ McFall-Ngai - Annual review of microbiology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Developmental biology is among the many subdisciplines of the life sciences being
transformed by our increasing awareness of the role of coevolved microbial symbionts in …

Symbiotic organs shaped by distinct modes of genome evolution in cephalopods

M Belcaid, G Casaburi, SJ McAnulty… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Microbes have been critical drivers of evolutionary innovation in animals. To understand the
processes that influence the origin of specialized symbiotic organs, we report the …

How it all begins: bacterial factors mediating the colonization of invertebrate hosts by beneficial symbionts

R Ganesan, JC Wierz, M Kaltenpoth… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Beneficial associations with bacteria are widespread across animals, spanning a range of
symbiont localizations, transmission routes, and functions. While some of these associations …

Knowing your friends: invertebrate innate immunity fosters beneficial bacterial symbioses

SV Nyholm, J Graf - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
The innate immune system is present in all animals and is a crucial first line of defence
against pathogens. However, animals also harbour large numbers of beneficial …

Genomic Signatures Supporting the Symbiosis and Formation of Chitinous Tube in the Deep-Sea Tubeworm Paraescarpia echinospica

Y Sun, J Sun, Y Yang, Y Lan, JCH Ip… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Vestimentiferan tubeworms are iconic animals that present as large habitat-forming
chitinized tube bushes in deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems. They are gutless and …

Immunity in molluscs: recognition and effector mechanisms, with a focus on bivalvia

M Gerdol, M Gomez-Chiarri, MG Castillo… - Advances in …, 2018 - Springer
The study of molluscan immune systems, in particular those of bivalve molluscs (eg, clams,
oysters, scallops, mussels), has experienced great growth in recent decades, mainly due to …

Cephalopods in neuroscience: regulations, research and the 3Rs

G Fiorito, A Affuso, DB Anderson, J Basil… - Invertebrate …, 2014 - Springer
Cephalopods have been utilised in neuroscience research for more than 100 years
particularly because of their phenotypic plasticity, complex and centralised nervous system …