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• Supplemental file 1 - Details of confocal microscopy methods; bacterial strains used in this study (Table S1); physiological and genetic characteristics of 65 strains of Vibrio fischeri used in this study (Table S2); statistic analyses applied to six phenotypes characterizing the V. fischeri symbionts described in this study (Table S3); colonization ratios of symbiont types found in each light-organ crypt of an experiment from which Fig. 6 was taken (Table S4); graph depicting the relationship between the inoculum characteristics and the number of cells colonizing the crypts (Fig. S1); comparison of the nucleotide sequence of the 16S rRNA gene found in an accessory nidamental gland bacterium and that of V. fischeri ES114 (Fig. S2).
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