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HomeIdentification of genes involved in the crosstalk between a social host and facultative symbionts that can form long-term persistent association

Identification of genes involved in the crosstalk between a social host and facultative symbionts that can form long-term persistent association

Project Summary

Our goal is to better understand how and why fitness outcomes differ among hosts when they encounter the same microbial symbiont in social groups. The amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum transitions between single cell amoebae to multicellular fruiting bodies when starved. Roughly a quarter of wild isolated D. discoideum are infected with amoeba-specific bacterial symbionts that readily infect new amoeba hosts in the lab. We will use this experimental system to investigate variation in host fitness and symbiont transmission, and the genes that are involved in the interaction between host and symbiont.  

Relevance

Microbes that persistently infect hosts can be ultimately beneficial, benign, or harmful to host fitness. Results from our research should help us predict and potentially change fitness outcomes of hosts that encounter infectious symbionts in social groups. 

Noh Lab Colby College

 

 

Investigator

Suegene Noh, Ph.D.
Colby College
Assistant Professor of Biology
ude.yblocnull@hons

Maine INBRE is funded by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.

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