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Recruitment in the sea: bacterial genes required for inducing larval settlement in a polychaete worm
Metamorphically competent larvae of the marine tubeworm Hydroides elegans can be induced to metamorphose by biofilms of the bacterium Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea strain HI1. Mutational analysis was used to identify four genes that are necessary for metamorphic induction and encode functions that...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22355742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00228 |