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Gene Lets Bacteria Jump From Host to Host Monday, February 02, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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All life — plants, animals, people — depends on peaceful coexistence with a swarm of microbial life that performs vital services from helping to convert food to energy to protection from disease. Now, with the help of a squid that uses a luminescent bacterium to create a predator-fooling light organ and a fish, scientists have found that gaining a single gene is enough for the microbe to switch host animals. (source: news.wisc.edu)
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