Most Recent Publications

2016

Bongrand C, Koch EJ, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Cordero OX, McFall-Ngai MJ, Polz MF and Ruby EG. A genomic comparison of 13 symbiotic Vibrio fischeri isolates from the perspective of their host source and colonization behavior ISME J 2016 (in press)

 

2015

McFall-Ngai MJ. Giving microbes their due-animal life in a microbially dominant world. J Exp Biol 2015 218(12), 1968-1973

Nikolakakis K, Lehnert E, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG. Use of hybridization chain reaction-fluorescent in situ hybridization (HCR-FISH) to track gene expression by both partners during initiation of symbiosis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015 81(14), 4728-4735   

McFall-Ngai MJ. Out of sight, out of mind. Environ Microbiol Rep 2015 7(1), 29-30

Krasity BC, Troll JV, Lehnert EM, Hackett KT, Dillard JP, Apicella MA, Goldman WE, Weiss JP, McFall-Ngai MJ. Structural and functional features of a developmentally regulated lipopolysaccharide-binding protein. mBio 2015 6(5), e01193-15

Schwartzman JA, Koch E, Heath-Heckman EAC, Zhou L, Kremer N, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG. The chemistry of negotiation: rhythmic, glycan-driven acidification in a symbiotic conversation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2015 112(2), 566-571

Aschtgen M-S, Wetzel K, Goldman W, McFall-Ngai MJ and Ruby EG. Vibrio fischeri-derived outer membrane vesicles trigger host development. Cellul Microbiol 2015 ()

 

2014

McFall-Ngai MJ. The importance of microbes in animal development: lessons from the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 2014 68(), 177-94

Kremer N, Schwartzman J, Augustin R, Zhou L, Ruby EG, Hourdez S, McFall-Ngai MJ. The dual nature of haemocyanin in the establishment and persistence of the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Proc. Biol. Sci. 2014 281(1785), 20140504

Heath-Heckman EA, Gillette AA, Augustin R, Gillette MX, Goldman WE, McFall-Ngai MJ. Shaping the microenvironment: evidence for the influence of a host galaxin on symbiont acquisition and maintenance in the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Environ. Microbiol. 2014 ()

Koch EJ, Miyashiro T, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG. Features governing symbiont persistence in the squid-vibrio association. Mol. Ecol. 2014 23(6), 1624-34

Brennan CA, Hunt JR, Kremer N, Krasity BC, Apicella MA, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG. A model symbiosis reveals a role for sheathed-flagellum rotation in the release of immunogenic lipopolysaccharide. Elife 2014 3(), e01579

McFall-Ngai MJ. Divining the Essence of Symbiosis: Insights from the Squid-Vibrio Model PLOS Biol. 2014 12(2),

Koropatnick T, Goodson MS, Heath-Heckman EAC, McFall-Ngai MJ. Identifying the Cellular Mechanisms of Symbiont-Induced Epithelial Morphogenesis in the Squid-Vibrio Association Biol. Bull. 2014 226(1), 56-68

Peyer SM, Pankey MS, Oakley TH, McFall-Ngai MJ. Eye-specification genes in the bacterial light organ of the bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes, and their expression in response to symbiont cues. Mech. Dev. 2014 131(), 111-26

Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ. Animal development in a microbial world. 2014 (),

 

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