How do hosts select and interact with beneficial symbionts?
Goodrich-Blair Lab at The University of Tennessee
We are using nematodes to explore how animals form partnerships with beneficial bacteria, and how these relationships change and evolve over evolutionary time.
Check out our papers on the genetic and genomic tools we've been developing recently in the X. griffiniae symbiont of S. hermaphroditum:
Heppert J.K., Awori M.A., Cao M., Chen G., McLeish, J., Goodrich-Blair H., Analyses of Xenorhabdus griffiniae genomes reveal two distinct sub-species that display intra-species variation due to prophages. bioRxiv 2024.03.08.584182; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.08.584182.
St. Thomas N.M., Myers T.G., Alani O.S., Goodrich-Blair H., Heppert J.K. Green and red fluorescent strains of Xenorhabdus griffiniae HGB2511, the bacterial symbiont of the nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum (India). MicroPubl Biol. (2024) PMID: 38371317.
Alani O.S., Cao M., Goodrich-Blair H., Heppert J.K. Conjugation and transposon mutagenesis of Xenorhabdus griffiniae HGB2511, the bacterial symbiont of the nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum (India). MicroPubl Biol. (2023) PMID: 37179970.
Check out our papers on the genetic and genomic tools we've been developing recently in the X. griffiniae symbiont of S. hermaphroditum:
Heppert J.K., Awori M.A., Cao M., Chen G., McLeish, J., Goodrich-Blair H., Analyses of Xenorhabdus griffiniae genomes reveal two distinct sub-species that display intra-species variation due to prophages. bioRxiv 2024.03.08.584182; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.08.584182.
St. Thomas N.M., Myers T.G., Alani O.S., Goodrich-Blair H., Heppert J.K. Green and red fluorescent strains of Xenorhabdus griffiniae HGB2511, the bacterial symbiont of the nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum (India). MicroPubl Biol. (2024) PMID: 38371317.
Alani O.S., Cao M., Goodrich-Blair H., Heppert J.K. Conjugation and transposon mutagenesis of Xenorhabdus griffiniae HGB2511, the bacterial symbiont of the nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum (India). MicroPubl Biol. (2023) PMID: 37179970.