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Cover Picture: J. Basic Microbiol. 3/2011
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of basic microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.58
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1521-4028
pISSN - 0233-111X
DOI - 10.1002/jobm.201190007
Subject(s) - vibrio alginolyticus , lawn , caenorhabditis elegans , pathogen , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , virulence , agar plate , agar , bacteria , vibrio , botany , genetics , gene
Caenorhabditis elegans , which was developed as an infection model for Vibrio alginolyticus , displays lawn avoidance behaviour towards pathogenic bacteria using their olfactory stimuli. Animals were tracked on an agar plate in presence of food source, E. coli OP50 and pathogen source, V. alginolyticus . The animals moved freely around the food source avoiding the pathogen lawn. For the first time, the pathogenicity of V. alginolyticus at both physiological and molecular level has been studied in detail using the model organism C. elegans . (Photo: Sellegounder Durai, Shunmugiah Karutha Pandian and Krishnaswamy Balamurugan, Karaikudi, India)