Transcriptional characterization of Vibrio fischeri during colonization of juvenile Euprymna scolopes.

ABSTRACT: The marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri is the monospecific symbiont of the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, and the establishment of this association involves a number of signaling pathways and transcriptional responses between both partners. We report here the first full RNA-Seq dataset representing host-associated V. fischeri cells from colonized juvenile E. scolopes, as well as comparative transcriptomes under both laboratory and simulated marine planktonic conditions. These data elucidate the broad transcriptional changes that these bacteria undergo during the early stages of symbiotic colonization. We report several previously undescribed and unexpected transcriptional responses within the early stages of this symbiosis, including gene expression patterns consistent with bioch

SUBMITTER: Thompson LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5409853 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature