The Mechanistic Benefits of Microbial Symbionts

<p>Symbiotic associations: all about chemistry.- Phage conversion and the role of bacteriophage and host functions in regulation of diphtheria toxin production by Corynebacterium diphtheriae.- Syntrophic growth of Symbiobacterium in association with free-living bacteria.- The mechanism of symbiotic nitrogen fixation.- Antimicrobials and the natural biology of a bacterial-nematode symbiosis.- The role of symbionts in the evolution of termites and their rise to ecological dominance in the tropics.- Diverse bacteriophage roles in an aphid-bacterial defensive mutualism.- Symbiotic Streptomyces provide antifungal defense in solitary wasps.- Watersipora subtorquata and the possible role of its associated microbes – an attempt to explain the extraordinary invasion success of this marine bryozoan species.- Animal-Symbiodinium symbioses: foundations of coral reef ecosystems.-Fiat lux: the squid-vibrio association as a model for understanding host-microbe associations.</p><p> </p><p> </p>