Polyphyly of non-bioluminescent Vibrio fischeri sharing a lux-locus deletion

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Main Authors: Wollenberg, M. S. (Author), Preheim, Sarah Pachocha (Author), Polz, Martin F. (Contributor), Ruby, E. G. (Author), Preheim, Sarah Pacocha (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Applied Microbiology/Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2014-09-15T20:16:39Z.
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100 1 0 |a Wollenberg, M. S.  |e author 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Preheim, Sarah Pacocha  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Polz, Martin F.  |e contributor 
700 1 0 |a Preheim, Sarah Pachocha  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Polz, Martin F.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Ruby, E. G.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Preheim, Sarah Pacocha  |e author 
245 0 0 |a Polyphyly of non-bioluminescent Vibrio fischeri sharing a lux-locus deletion 
260 |b Society for Applied Microbiology/Blackwell Publishing Ltd.,   |c 2014-09-15T20:16:39Z. 
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520 |a This study reports the first description and molecular characterization of naturally occurring, non-bioluminescent strains of Vibrio fischeri. These 'dark'V. fischeri strains remained non-bioluminescent even after treatment with both autoinducer and aldehyde, substrate additions that typically maximize light production in dim strains of luminous bacteria. Surprisingly, the entire lux locus (eight genes) was absent in over 97% of these dark V. fischeri strains. Although these strains were all collected from a Massachusetts (USA) estuary in 2007, phylogenetic reconstructions allowed us to reject the hypothesis that these newly described non-bioluminescent strains exhibit monophyly within the V. fischeri clade. These dark strains exhibited a competitive disadvantage against native bioluminescent strains when colonizing the light organ of the model V. fischeri host, the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes. Significantly, we believe that the data collected in this study may suggest the first observation of a functional, parallel locus-deletion event among independent lineages of a non-pathogenic bacterial species. 
520 |a National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Molecular Biosciences (5T32GM007215-35)) 
520 |a National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Microbes in Health and Disease, training grant (2T32AI055397-07)) 
520 |a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 
520 |a Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (SPARC programme) 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF IOS 0841507) 
520 |a National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH R01 RR12294) 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF Microbial Systems in the Biosphere programme) 
520 |a Woods Hole Center for Oceans & Human Health 
546 |a en_US 
655 7 |a Article 
773 |t Environmental Microbiology