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Luminescent Bacteria: Symbionts of Nematodes Am) Pathogens of Insects

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Cell to Cell Signals in Plant, Animal and Microbial Symbiosis

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Luminous bacteria are a well-known group of (primarily marine) bacteria that are ecologically quite diverse (Nealson and Hastings, 1979). They participate in a wide variety of symbioses, including loose associations as gut symbionts, species-specific associations as extracellular symbionts of light organs of marine fishes and squids, and intracellular associations as symbionts of luminous tunicates (Nealson et al., 1981). Some examples of these associations are shown in Table 1.

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    K. Nealson, T. M. Schmidt & B. Bleakley

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  1. Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università di Torino, Viale Mattioli 25, 10125, Torino, Italy

    Silvano Scannerini  & Paola Bonfante-Fasolo  & 

  2. Old College, University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, Edinbourgh, UK

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Nealson, K., Schmidt, T.M., Bleakley, B. (1988). Luminescent Bacteria: Symbionts of Nematodes Am) Pathogens of Insects. In: Scannerini, S., Smith, D., Bonfante-Fasolo, P., Gianinazzi-Pearson, V. (eds) Cell to Cell Signals in Plant, Animal and Microbial Symbiosis. NATO ASI Series, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73154-9_7

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