Microscopy Image of Luminous Symbionts (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Microscopy Image of Luminous Symbionts

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Confocal image showing the localized, symbiont-triggered response by the light-organ epithelium. Luminous symbionts (red) induce edema-associated gene expression (green) in adjacent host epithelium (nuclei, blue.)

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Silvia Moriano-Gutierrez, UH Mānoa/ SOEST/ PBRC.

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