title: First impressions in a glowing host-microbe partnership.
abstract: Despite the clear significance of beneficial animal-microbe associations, mechanisms underlying their initiation and establishment are rarely understood. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Kremer et al. (2013) reveal that first contact within the squid-vibrio symbiosis triggers profound molecular and chemical changes that are crucial for bacterial colonization.
authors: Nicholas School of the Environment and Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. j.wernegreen@duke.edu
authors: Jennifer J
authors: JJ
authors: Wernegreen
mesh_terms: D048908:Aliivibrio fischeri / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D049832:Decapodiformes / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000502:physiology*; D013559:Symbiosis
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