Sequencing of marine bacterium will help study of cell communication

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2005-02-10

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Virginia Tech. University Relations

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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 squid, has helped a Virginia Tech microbiologist advance her research on quorum sensing, or how cells communicate and function as a community.

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