Vibrio coralliilyticus search patterns across an oxygen gradient

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dc.contributor.author Winn, Karina
dc.contributor.author Bourne, David G
dc.contributor.author Mitchell, James Gordon
dc.date.accessioned 2015-09-21T02:06:04Z
dc.date.available 2015-09-21T02:06:04Z
dc.date.issued 2013-07-10
dc.description.abstract The coral pathogen, Vibrio coralliilyticus shows specific chemotactic search pattern preference for oxic and anoxic conditions, with the newly identified 3-step flick search pattern dominating the patterns used in oxic conditions. We analyzed motile V. coralliilyticus cells for behavioral changes with varying oxygen concentrations to mimic the natural coral environment exhibited during light and dark conditions. Results showed that 3-step flicks were 1.4× (P = 0.006) more likely to occur in oxic conditions than anoxic conditions with mean values of 18 flicks (95% CI = 0.4, n = 53) identified in oxic regions compared to 13 (95% CI = 0.5, n = 38) at anoxic areas. In contrast, run and reverse search patterns were more frequent in anoxic regions with a mean value of 15 (95% CI = 0.7, n = 46), compared to a mean value of 10 (95% CI = 0.8, n = 29) at oxic regions. Straight swimming search patterns remained similar across oxic and anoxic regions with a mean value of 13 (95% CI = 0.7, n = oxic: 13, anoxic: 14). V. coralliilyticus remained motile in oxic and anoxic conditions, however, the 3-step flick search pattern occurred in oxic conditions. This result provides an approach to further investigate the 3-step flick. en
dc.description.sponsorship This study was funded by an ARC Discovery Grant to JG Mitchell. The associated grant number is DP1096658 with URL www.arc.gov.au. Work at the Cape Ferguson laboratories was supported by the Australian Institute of Marine Science. en
dc.identifier.citation Winn, K.W., Bourne, D.G. and Mitchell, J.G., 2013. Vibrio coralliilyticus search patterns across an oxygen gradient. PLoS One 8(7): e67975. en
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067975 en
dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2328/35549
dc.identifier.uri http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0067975
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher PLOS One en
dc.relation http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP1096658 en
dc.relation.grantnumber ARC/DP1096658
dc.rights 2013 Winn et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. en
dc.rights.holder Copyright (C) 2013 Winn et al. en
dc.subject Microbiology en
dc.subject Oxygen en
dc.subject Cell motility en
dc.title Vibrio coralliilyticus search patterns across an oxygen gradient en
dc.type Article en
local.contributor.authorOrcidLookup Mitchell, James Gordon: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8445-0935 en_US
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