Sanchez G, Fernández-Ãlvarez FÃ, Bernal A, Heath-Heckman E, Lami R, McFall-Ngai M, Nishiguchi M, Nyholm S, Simakov O, Allcock AL, Rokhsar DS (2026) Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches. Nature ecology & evolution 10((4)):662-676 PMC8904582 · Pubmed · DOI
Kuwabara JT, Beilinson V, Hargadon AC, Chen GY, Hu XM, Ladinsky MS, Hackett KT, Dillard JP, Visick KL, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai M (2026) SypC, a symbiont outer membrane vesicle protein, impacts the development of the squid-vibrio partnership. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123((11)):e2524648123 PMC12994190 · Pubmed · DOI
Oakes C, Beilinson V, McFall-Ngai MJ, Pachter L (2026) Uniform pre-processing of bacterial single-cell RNA-seq. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology : PMC10014032 · Pubmed · DOI
Otjacques E, Paula JR, Ruby EG, Xavier JC, McFall-Ngai MJ, Rosa R, Schunter C (2026) Developmental and transcriptomic responses of Hawaiian bobtail squid early stages to ocean warming and acidification. Proceedings. Biological sciences 292((2061)): · Pubmed · DOI
Sanchez G, Simakov O, Nyholm S, Nishiguchi M, McFall-Ngai M, Lami R, Heath-Heckman E, Oatley G, Sinclair E, Aunin E, Gettle N, Santos C, Paulini M, Niu H, McKenna V, O'Brien R (2026) The chromosomal genome sequence of the bigfin reef squid, d'Orbigny, 1826 and its associated microbial metagenome sequences. Wellcome open research 10:351 PMC9848053 · Pubmed · DOI
Gilbert JA, Scholz AH, Dominguez Bello MG, Korsten L, Berg G, Singh BK, Boetius A, Wang F, Greening C, Wrighton K, Bordenstein SR, Jansson J, Lennon JT, Souza V, Allard SM, Thomas T, Cowan D, Crowther TW, Nguyen N, Harper L, Haraoui LP, Ishaq SL, McFall-Ngai M, Redford KH, Peixoto R (2025) Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The ISME journal 19((1)): PMC12205078 · Pubmed · DOI
Gilbert JA, Scholz AH, Dominguez Bello MG, Korsten L, Berg G, Singh BK, Boetius A, Wang F, Greening C, Wrighton K, Bordenstein SR, Jansson J, Lennon JT, Souza V, Allard SM, Thomas T, Cowan D, Crowther TW, Nguyen N, Harper L, Haraoui LP, Ishaq SL, McFall-Ngai M, Redford KH, Peixoto R (2025) Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. FEMS microbiology ecology 101((12)): PMC11880430 · Pubmed · DOI
Gilbert JA, Scholz AH, Dominguez Bello MG, Korsten L, Berg G, Singh BK, Boetius A, Wang F, Greening C, Wrighton K, Bordenstein SR, Jansson J, Lennon JT, Souza V, Allard SM, Thomas T, Cowan D, Crowther TW, Nguyen N, Harper L, Haraoui L-P, Ishaq SL, McFall-Ngai M, Redford KH, Peixoto R (2025) Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. mSystems 10((12)):e0150525 PMC12205078 · Pubmed · DOI
Beilinson V, Chen GY, Hargadon AC, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2025) Strain matters: host responses reflect symbiont origin in the squid-vibrio symbiosis. mSystems 10((12)):e0049825 PMC12366355 · Pubmed · DOI
Otjacques E, Jatico B, Marques TA, Xavier JC, Ruby E, McFall-Ngai M, Rosa R (2025) Climate-Driven Warming Disrupts the Symbiosis of Bobtail Squid Euprymna scolopes and the Luminous Bacterium Vibrio fischeri. Global change biology 31((5)):e70243 · Pubmed · DOI
Ling F, Essock-Burns T, McFall-Ngai M, Katija K, Nawroth JC, Kanso E (2025) Flow Physics Guides Morphology of Ciliated Organs. Nature physics 20((10)):1679-1686 PMC7472586 · Pubmed · DOI
Kajihara KT, Yuan M, Amend AS, Cetraro N, Darcy JL, Fraiola KMS, Frank K, McFall-Ngai M, Medeiros MCI, Nakayama KK, Nelson CE, Rollins RL, Sparagon WJ, Swift SOI, Téfit MA, Yew JY, Yogi D, Hynson NA (2025) Diversity, connectivity and negative interactions define robust microbiome networks across land, stream, and sea. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology : PMC8528840 · Pubmed · DOI
Hargadon AC, Viliunas JW, Koehler S, Thies AB, Chen GY, Ladinsky MS, Kuwabara J, Avila-Magana V, Ruby EG, Tresguerres M, McFall-Ngai MJ (2024) An acidic microenvironment produced by the V-type ATPase of Euprymna scolopes promotes specificity during Vibrio fischeri recruitment. Communications biology 7((1)):1642 PMC10771462 · Pubmed · DOI
Otjacques E, Paula JR, Ruby EG, Xavier JC, McFall-Ngai MJ, Rosa R, Schunter C (2024) Developmental and transcriptomic responses of Hawaiian bobtail squid early stages to ocean warming and acidification. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology : PMC106849 · Pubmed · DOI
Chen YY, Evavold CL, Mann M, Davenport ER, McFall-Ngai M, Bienko M, Ueda HR, Tian L, Tjahjono N, Anikeeva P, Liu JG, Deans TL, Shen X (2024) What tool or method do you wish existed? Cell 187((17)):4433-4438 · Pubmed · DOI
Gestal MC, Oates AE, Akob DM, Criss AK (2024) Perspectives on the future of host-microbe biology from the Council on Microbial Sciences of the American Society for Microbiology. mSphere 9((7)):e0025624 PMC8060789 · Pubmed · DOI
Bosch TCG, Wigley M, Colomina B, Bohannan B, Meggers F, Amato KR, Azad MB, Blaser MJ, Brown K, Dominguez-Bello MG, Ehrlich SD, Elinav E, Finlay BB, Geddie K, Geva-Zatorsky N, Giles-Vernick T, Gros P, Guillemin K, Haraoui LP, Johnson E, Keck F, Lorimer J, McFall-Ngai MJ, Nichter M, Pettersson S, Poinar H, Rees T, Tropini C, Undurraga EA, Zhao L, Melby MK (2024) The potential importance of the built-environment microbiome and its impact on human health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121((20)):e2313971121 PMC7474686 · Pubmed · DOI
Yang L, Lawhorn S, Bongrand C, Kosmopoulos JC, Kuwabara J, VanNieuwenhze M, Mandel MJ, McFall-Ngai M, Ruby E (2024) Bacterial growth dynamics in a rhythmic symbiosis. Molecular biology of the cell 35((6)):ar79 PMC6794480 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai M (2024) Symbiosis takes a front and center role in biology. PLoS biology 22((4)):e3002571 PMC6428750 · Pubmed · DOI
Bosch TCG, Blaser MJ, Ruby E, McFall-Ngai M (2024) A new lexicon in the age of microbiome research. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 379((1901)):20230060 PMC8724541 · Pubmed · DOI
Ling F, Essock-Burns T, McFall-Ngai M, Katija K, Nawroth JC, Kanso E (2024) Flow Physics Explains Morphological Diversity of Ciliated Organs. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology : PMC10760039 · Pubmed · DOI
Tropini C, Finlay BB, Nichter M, Melby MK, Metcalf JL, Dominguez-Bello MG, Zhao L, McFall-Ngai MJ, Geva-Zatorsky N, Amato KR, Undurraga EA, Poinar HN, Gilbert JA (2023) Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis. mBio 14((6)):e0109123 PMC8765409 · Pubmed · DOI
Mannochio-Russo H, Swift SOI, Nakayama KK, Wall CB, Gentry EC, Panitchpakdi M, Caraballo-Rodriguez AM, Aron AT, Petras D, Dorrestein K, Dorrestein TK, Williams TM, Nalley EM, Altman-Kurosaki NT, Martinelli M, Kuwabara JY, Darcy JL, Bolzani VS, Wegley Kelly L, Mora C, Yew JY, Amend AS, McFall-Ngai M, Hynson NA, Dorrestein PC, Nelson CE (2023) Microbiomes and metabolomes of dominant coral reef primary producers illustrate a potential role for immunolipids in marine symbioses. Communications biology 6((1)):896 PMC5096306 · Pubmed · DOI
Rouressol L, Briseno J, Vijayan N, Chen GY, Ritschard EA, Sanchez G, Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ, Simakov O (2023) Emergence of novel genomic regulatory regions associated with light-organ development in the bobtail squid. iScience 26((7)):107091 PMC6324079 · Pubmed · DOI
Essock-Burns T, Lawhorn S, Wu L, McClosky S, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2023) Maturation state of colonization sites promotes symbiotic resiliency in the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri partnership. Microbiome 11((1)):68 PMC9185944 · Pubmed · DOI
Yue X, Zhang S, Wang H, Yu J, Peng Q, McFall-Ngai M, Liu B (2022) The mud-dwelling clam secretes endogenously synthesized erythromycin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119((49)):e2214150119 PMC4409153 · Pubmed · DOI
Gundlach KA, Nawroth J, Kanso E, Nasrin F, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai M (2022) Ciliated epithelia are key elements in the recruitment of bacterial partners in the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology 10:974213 PMC2978254 · Pubmed · DOI
Olaso CM, Viliunas J, McFall-Ngai M (2022) A peptidoglycan-recognition protein orchestrates the first steps of symbiont recruitment in the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Symbiosis (Philadelphia, Pa.) 87((1)):31-43 PMC17651 · Pubmed · DOI
Amend AS, Swift SOI, Darcy JL, Belcaid M, Nelson CE, Buchanan J, Cetraro N, Fraiola KMS, Frank K, Kajihara K, McDermot TG, McFall-Ngai M, Medeiros M, Mora C, Nakayama KK, Nguyen NH, Rollins RL, Sadowski P, Sparagon W, Téfit MA, Yew JY, Yogi D, Hynson NA (2022) A ridge-to-reef ecosystem microbial census reveals environmental reservoirs for animal and plant microbiomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119((33)):e2204146119 PMC6235622 · Pubmed · DOI
Truong TV, Holland DB, Madaan S, Andreev A, Keomanee-Dizon K, Troll JV, Koo DES, McFall-Ngai MJ, Fraser SE (2022) Publisher Correction: Author Correction: High-contrast, synchronous volumetric imaging with selective volume illumination microscopy. Communications biology 5((1)):533 PMC9142577 · Pubmed · DOI
Truong TV, Holland DB, Madaan S, Andreev A, Keomanee-Dizon K, Troll JV, Koo DES, McFall-Ngai MJ, Fraser SE (2022) Author Correction: High-contrast, synchronous volumetric imaging with selective volume illumination microscopy. Communications biology 5((1)):363 PMC9001636 · Pubmed · DOI
Truong TV, Holland DB, Madaan S, Andreev A, Keomanee-Dizon K, Troll JV, Koo DES, McFall-Ngai MJ, Fraser SE (2022) Author Correction: High-contrast, synchronous volumetric imaging with selective volume illumination microscopy. Communications biology 5((1)):363 PMC9001636 · Pubmed · DOI
Lynch JB, James N, McFall-Ngai M, Ruby EG, Shin S, Takagi D (2022) Transitioning to confined spaces impacts bacterial swimming and escape response. Biophysical journal : · Pubmed · DOI
Lynch JB, James N, McFall-Ngai M, Ruby EG, Shin S, Takagi D (2022) Transitioning to confined spaces impacts bacterial swimming and escape response. Biophysical journal 121((13)):2653-2662 PMC4577176 · Pubmed · DOI
Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ (2022) Publisher Correction: A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner. Nature reviews. Microbiology 20((5)):315 · Pubmed · DOI
Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ (2022) Publisher Correction: A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner. Nature reviews. Microbiology 20((5)):315 · Pubmed · DOI
Bongrand C, Koch E, Mende D, Romano A, Lawhorn S, McFall-Ngai M, DeLong EF, Ruby EG (2022) Evidence of Genomic Diversification in a Natural Symbiotic Population Within Its Host. Frontiers in microbiology 13:854355 PMC8922018 · Pubmed · DOI
Bongrand C, Koch E, Mende D, Romano A, Lawhorn S, McFall-Ngai M, DeLong EF, Ruby EG (2022) Evidence of Genomic Diversification in a Natural Symbiotic Population Within Its Host. Frontiers in microbiology 13:854355 PMC3992678 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai M (2022) Building a career during a revolution in biology. Nature microbiology 7((3)):347-348 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai M (2022) Building a career during a revolution in biology. Nature microbiology 7((3)):347-348 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai M, Ruby E (2021) Getting the Message Out: the Many Modes of Host-Symbiont Communication during Early-Stage Establishment of the Squid-Vibrio Partnership. mSystems 6((5)):e0086721 PMC8547416 · Pubmed · DOI
Essock-Burns T, Bennett BD, Arencibia D, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Medeiros M, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2021) Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Regulation Induces Morphological Change in a Key Host Tissue during the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri Symbiosis. mBio 12((5)):e0240221 PMC8546586 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai M, Ruby E (2021) Getting the Message Out: the Many Modes of Host-Symbiont Communication during Early-Stage Establishment of the Squid-Vibrio Partnership. mSystems 6((5)):e0086721 PMC8547416 · Pubmed · DOI
Essock-Burns T, Bennett BD, Arencibia D, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Medeiros M, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2021) Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Regulation Induces Morphological Change in a Key Host Tissue during the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri Symbiosis. mBio 12((5)):e0240221 PMC8546586 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai M (2021) Keeping the clock running: The microbiome as a pivotal timekeeper. Cell metabolism 33((8)):1514-1515 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai M (2021) Keeping the clock running: The microbiome as a pivotal timekeeper. Cell metabolism 33((8)):1514-1515 · Pubmed · DOI
Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ (2021) A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner. Nature reviews. Microbiology 19((10)):666-679 PMC8440403 · Pubmed · DOI
Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ (2021) A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner. Nature reviews. Microbiology 19((10)):666-679 PMC8440403 · Pubmed · DOI
Moriano-Gutierrez S, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2021) MicroRNA-Mediated Regulation of Initial Host Responses in a Symbiotic Organ. mSystems 6((3)): PMC8125070 · Pubmed · DOI
Moriano-Gutierrez S, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2021) MicroRNA-Mediated Regulation of Initial Host Responses in a Symbiotic Organ. mSystems 6((3)): PMC8125070 · Pubmed · DOI
Bosch TCG, McFall-Ngai M (2021) Animal development in the microbial world: Re-thinking the conceptual framework. Current topics in developmental biology 141:399-427 PMC8214508 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai M, Bosch TCG (2021) Animal development in the microbial world: The power of experimental model systems. Current topics in developmental biology 141:371-397 PMC8211120 · Pubmed · DOI
Bosch TCG, McFall-Ngai M (2021) Animal development in the microbial world: Re-thinking the conceptual framework. Current topics in developmental biology 141:399-427 PMC8214508 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai M, Bosch TCG (2021) Animal development in the microbial world: The power of experimental model systems. Current topics in developmental biology 141:371-397 PMC8211120 · Pubmed · DOI
Finlay BB, Amato KR, Azad M, Blaser MJ, Bosch TCG, Chu H, Dominguez-Bello MG, Ehrlich SD, Elinav E, Geva-Zatorsky N, Gros P, Guillemin K, Keck F, Korem T, McFall-Ngai MJ, Melby MK, Nichter M, Pettersson S, Poinar H, Rees T, Tropini C, Zhao L, Giles-Vernick T (2021) The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118((6)): PMC8017729 · Pubmed · DOI
Finlay BB, Amato KR, Azad M, Blaser MJ, Bosch TCG, Chu H, Dominguez-Bello MG, Ehrlich SD, Elinav E, Geva-Zatorsky N, Gros P, Guillemin K, Keck F, Korem T, McFall-Ngai MJ, Melby MK, Nichter M, Pettersson S, Poinar H, Rees T, Tropini C, Zhao L, Giles-Vernick T (2021) The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118((6)): PMC8017729 · Pubmed · DOI
Moriano-Gutierrez S, Bongrand C, Essock-Burns T, Wu L, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2020) The noncoding small RNA SsrA is released by Vibrio fischeri and modulates critical host responses. PLoS biology 18((11)):e3000934 PMC7665748 · Pubmed · DOI
Aschtgen MS, Brennan CA, Nikolakakis K, Cohen S, McFall-Ngai M, Ruby EG (2020) Insights into flagellar function and mechanism from the squid-vibrio symbiosis. NPJ biofilms and microbiomes 5((1)):32 · Pubmed
Koch EJ, Bongrand C, Bennett BD, Lawhorn S, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Pende M, Vadiwala K, Dodt HU, Raible F, Goldman W, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai M (2020) The cytokine MIF controls daily rhythms of symbiont nutrition in an animal-bacterial association. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117((44)):27578-27586 PMC7959500 · Pubmed · DOI
Koch EJ, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai M, Liebeke M (2020) The impact of persistent colonization by on the metabolome of the host squid . The Journal of experimental biology 223((Pt 16)): PMC7473655 · Pubmed · DOI
Essock-Burns T, Bongrand C, Goldman WE, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2020) Interactions of Symbiotic Partners Drive the Development of a Complex Biogeography in the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis. mBio 11((3)): PMC7251207 · Pubmed · DOI
Cohen SK, Aschtgen MS, Lynch JB, Koehler S, Chen F, Escrig S, Daraspe J, Ruby EG, Meibom A, McFall-Ngai M (2020) Tracking the cargo of extracellular symbionts into host tissues with correlated electron microscopy and nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry imaging. Cellular microbiology 22((4)):e13177 PMC7765731 · Pubmed · DOI
Bongrand C, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Arevalo P, McFall-Ngai M, Visick KL, Polz M, Ruby EG (2020) Using Colonization Assays and Comparative Genomics To Discover Symbiosis Behaviors and Factors in Vibrio fischeri. mBio 11((2)): PMC7064787 · Pubmed · DOI
Truong TV, Holland DB, Madaan S, Andreev A, Keomanee-Dizon K, Troll JV, Koo DES, McFall-Ngai MJ, Fraser SE (2020) High-contrast, synchronous volumetric imaging with selective volume illumination microscopy. Communications biology 3((1)):74 PMC7021898 · Pubmed · DOI
Koch EJ, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai M, Liebeke M (2020) The impact of persistent colonization by Vibrio fischeri on the metabolome of the host squid Euprymna scolopes. The Journal of experimental biology : · Pubmed · DOI
Martiny JBH, Whiteson KL, Bohannan BJM, David LA, Hynson NA, McFall-Ngai M, Rawls JF, Schmidt TM, Abdo Z, Blaser MJ, Bordenstein S, Bréchot C, Bull CT, Dorrestein P, Eisen JA, Garcia-Pichel F, Gilbert J, Hofmockel KS, Holtz ML, Knight R, Mark Welch DB, McDonald D, Methé B, Mouncey NJ, Mueller NT, Pfister CA, Proctor L, Sachs JL (2019) The emergence of microbiome centres. Nature microbiology 5((1)):2-3 · Pubmed · DOI
Aschtgen MS, Brennan CA, Nikolakakis K, Cohen S, McFall-Ngai M, Ruby EG (2019) Insights into flagellar function and mechanism from the squid-vibrio symbiosis. NPJ biofilms and microbiomes 5((1)):32 PMC6814793 · Pubmed
Gruber-Vodicka HR, Leisch N, Kleiner M, Hinzke T, Liebeke M, McFall-Ngai M, Hadfield MG, Dubilier N (2019) Two intracellular and cell type-specific bacterial symbionts in the placozoan Trichoplax H2. Nature microbiology 4((9)):1465-1474 PMC6784892 · Pubmed
Bosch TCG, Guillemin K, McFall-Ngai M (2019) Evolutionary "Experiments" in Symbiosis: The Study of Model Animals Provides Insights into the Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity of Host-Microbe Interactions. BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology 41((10)):e1800256 PMC6756983 · Pubmed
Moriano-Gutierrez S, Koch EJ, Bussan H, Romano K, Belcaid M, Rey FE, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2019) Critical symbiont signals drive both local and systemic changes in diel and developmental host gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116((16)):7990-7999 PMC6475425 · Pubmed
Belcaid M, Casaburi G, McAnulty SJ, Schmidbaur H, Suria AM, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Pankey MS, Oakley TH, Kremer N, Koch EJ, Collins AJ, Nguyen H, Lek S, Goncharenko-Foster I, Minx P, Sodergren E, Weinstock G, Rokhsar DS, McFall-Ngai M, Simakov O, Foster JS, Nyholm SV (2019) Symbiotic organs shaped by distinct modes of genome evolution in cephalopods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116((8)):3030-3035 PMC6386654 · Pubmed
Kremer N, Koch EJ, El Filali A, Zhou L, Heath-Heckman EAC, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2018) Persistent Interactions with Bacterial Symbionts Direct Mature-Host Cell Morphology and Gene Expression in the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis. mSystems 3((5)):e00165-18 PMC6172772 · Pubmed · DOI
Peyer, SM, N Kremer, M McFall-Ngai (2018) Involvement of a host cathepsin L in symbiont-induced cell death Microbiology Open 7(5): · DOI
Truong, TV, DB Holland, S Madaan, A Andreev, JV Troll, DES Koo, K Keomanee-Dizo, MJ McFall-Ngai, SE Frazer (2018) Selective volume illumination microscopy offers synchronous volumetric imaging with high contrast. bioRxiv 0:0 · DOI
Koehler S, Gaedeke R, Thompson C, Bongrand C, Visick KL, Ruby E, McFall-Ngai M (2018) The model squid-vibrio symbiosis provides a window into the impact of strain- and species-level differences during the initial stages of symbiont engagement. Environmental microbiology : PMC6386636 · Pubmed
Koch EJ, McFall-Ngai M (2018) Model systems for the study of how symbiotic associations between animals and extracellular bacterial partners are established and maintained. Drug discovery today. Disease models 28:3-12 PMC7449258 · Pubmed
Peyer SM, Kremer N, McFall-Ngai MJ (2018) Involvement of a host Cathepsin L in symbiont-induced cell death. MicrobiologyOpen 7((5)):e00632 PMC6182562 · Pubmed
Nawroth JC, Guo H, Koch E, Heath-Heckman EAC, Hermanson JC, Ruby EG, Dabiri JO, Kanso E, McFall-Ngai M (2017) Motile cilia create fluid-mechanical microhabitats for the active recruitment of the host microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114((36)):9510-9516 PMC5594677 · Pubmed · DOI
Rook G, Bäckhed F, Levin BR, McFall-Ngai MJ, McLean AR (2017) Evolution, human-microbe interactions, and life history plasticity. Lancet (London, England) 390((10093)):521-530 · Pubmed
Peyer SM, Heath-Heckman EAC, McFall-Ngai MJ (2017) Characterization of the cell polarity gene crumbs during the early development and maintenance of the squid-vibrio light organ symbiosis. Development genes and evolution 227((6)):375-387 PMC5519459 · Pubmed
Casadevall A, Ellis LM, Davies EW, McFall-Ngai M, Fang FC (2016) Reply to "Improving Microbiology Research: the Problems Are Less Statistical and More Biological". mBio 7((5)): PMC5082904 · Pubmed
Heath-Heckman EA, Foster J, Apicella MA, Goldman WE, McFall-Ngai M (2016) Environmental cues and symbiont microbe-associated molecular patterns function in concert to drive the daily remodelling of the crypt-cell brush border of the Euprymna scolopes light organ. Cellular microbiology 18((11)):1642-1652 PMC5219934 · Pubmed
Casadevall A, Ellis LM, Davies EW, McFall-Ngai M, Fang FC (2016) A Framework for Improving the Quality of Research in the Biological Sciences mBio 7(4):e01256-16 PMC4999552 · Pubmed · DOI
Alivisatos AP, Blaser MJ, Brodie EL, Chun M, Dangl JL, Donohue TJ, Dorrestein PC, Gilbert JA, Green JL, Jansson JK, Knight R, Maxon ME, McFall-Ngai MJ, Miller JF, Pollard KS, Ruby EG, Taha SA (2015) MICROBIOME. A unified initiative to harness Earth's microbiomes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350((6260)):507-8 · Pubmed · DOI
Alivisatos AP, Blaser MJ, Brodie EL, Chun M, Dangl JL, Donohue TJ, Dorrestein PC, Gilbert JA, Green JL, Jansson JK, Knight R, Maxon ME, McFall-Ngai MJ, Miller JF, Pollard KS, Ruby EG, Taha SA (2015) MICROBIOME. A unified initiative to harness Earth's microbiomes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350((6260)):507-8 · Pubmed · DOI
Nikolakakis K, Lehner EM, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2015) Use of hybridization chain reaction-fluorescent in situ hybridization (HCR-FISH) to track gene expression by both partners during initiation of symbiosis. Appl Environ Microbiol 81(14):4728-4735 (PMC4010582) · Pubmed · DOI
Schwartzman JA, Koch E, Heath-Heckman EAC, Zhou L, Kremer N, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2015) The chemistry of negotiation: rhythmic, glycan-driven acidification in a symbiotic conversation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112(2):566-571 4299225 · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai MJ (2014) The importance of microbes in animal development: lessons from the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 68:177-94 · Pubmed
Kremer N, Schwartzman J, Augustin R, Zhou L, Ruby EG, Hourdez S, McFall-Ngai MJ (2014) The dual nature of haemocyanin in the establishment and persistence of the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Proc. Biol. Sci. 281(1785):20140504 (PMC4024306) · Pubmed
Heath-Heckman EA, Gillette AA, Augustin R, Gillette MX, Goldman WE, McFall-Ngai MJ (2014) Shaping the microenvironment: evidence for the influence of a host galaxin on symbiont acquisition and maintenance in the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Environ. Microbiol. : (PMC4224630) · Pubmed
Koch EJ, Miyashiro T, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2014) Features governing symbiont persistence in the squid-vibrio association. Mol. Ecol. 23(6):1624-34 (PMC3907463) · Pubmed
Brennan CA, Hunt JR, Kremer N, Krasity BC, Apicella MA, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2014) A model symbiosis reveals a role for sheathed-flagellum rotation in the release of immunogenic lipopolysaccharide. Elife 3:e01579 (PMC3941163) · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ (2014) Divining the Essence of Symbiosis: Insights from the Squid-Vibrio Model PLOS Biol. 12(2): · DOI
Koropatnick T, Goodson MS, Heath-Heckman EAC, McFall-Ngai MJ (2014) Identifying the Cellular Mechanisms of Symbiont-Induced Epithelial Morphogenesis in the Squid-Vibrio Association Biol. Bull. 226(1):56-68 · DOI
Peyer SM, Pankey MS, Oakley TH, McFall-Ngai MJ (2014) Eye-specification genes in the bacterial light organ of the bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes, and their expression in response to symbiont cues. Mech. Dev. 131:111-26 (PMC4000693) · Pubmed
Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ (2014) Animal development in a microbial world. :
Kremer N, Philipp EE, Carpentier MC, Brennan CA, Kraemer L, Altura MA, Augustin R, Häsler R, Heath-Heckman EA, Peyer SM, Schwartzman J, Rader BA, Ruby EG, Rosenstiel P, McFall-Ngai MJ (2013) Initial symbiont contact orchestrates host-organ-wide transcriptional changes that prime tissue colonization. Cell Host Microbe 14(2):183-94 (PMC3928804) · Pubmed
Altura MA, Heath-Heckman EA, Gillette A, Kremer N, Krachler AM, Brennan C, Ruby EG, Orth K, McFall-Ngai MJ (2013) The first engagement of partners in the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri symbiosis is a two-step process initiated by a few environmental symbiont cells. Environ. Microbiol. : (PMC3937295) · Pubmed
Heath-Heckman EA, Peyer SM, Whistler CA, Apicella MA, Goldman WE, McFall-Ngai MJ (2013) Bacterial bioluminescence regulates expression of a host cryptochrome gene in the squid-Vibrio symbiosis. MBio 4(2): (PMC3622930) · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai M, Hadfield MG, Bosch TC, Carey HV, Domazet-Loso T, Douglas AE, Dubilier N, Eberl G, Fukami T, Gilbert SF, Hentschel U, King N, Kjelleberg S, Knoll AH, Kremer N, Mazmanian SK, Metcalf JL, Nealson K, Pierce NE, Rawls JF, Reid A, Ruby EG, Rumpho M, Sanders JG, Tautz D, Wernegreen JJ (2013) Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110(9):3229-36 (PMC3587249) · Pubmed
Hentschel U, Weis VM, McFall-Ngai MJ (2012) Biological bulletin virtual symposium: discoveries in animal symbiosis in the “omics” age. Biol. Bull. 223(1):5-6 · Pubmed
Mandel MJ, Schaefer AL, Brennan CA, Heath-Heckman EA, Deloney-Marino CR, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2012) Squid-derived chitin oligosaccharides are a chemotactic signal during colonization by Vibrio fischeri. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78(13):4620-6 (PMC3370474) · Pubmed
Rader BA, Kremer N, Apicella MA, Goldman WE, McFall-Ngai MJ (2012) Modulation of symbiont lipid A signaling by host alkaline phosphatases in the squid-vibrio symbiosis. MBio 3(3): (PMC3569863) · Pubmed
Post DM, Yu L, Krasity BC, Choudhury B, Mandel MJ, Brennan CA, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ, Gibson BW, Apicella MA (2012) O-antigen and core carbohydrate of Vibrio fischeri lipopolysaccharide: composition and analysis of their role in Euprymna scolopes light organ colonization. J. Biol. Chem. 287(11):8515-30 (PMC3318738) · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai, MJ, Heath-Heckman EA, Gilette AA, Peyer SM, Harvie EA (2012) The secret languages of coevolved symbioses: insights from the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri symbiosis. Semin. Immunol. 24:3-8 (PMC3288948) · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2012) Deciphering the language of diplomacy: give and take in the study of the squid-vibrio symbiosis. :173-80
Bosch TC, McFall-Ngai MJ (2011) Metaorganisms as the new frontier. Zoology (Jena) 114(4):185-90 · Pubmed
Heath-Heckman EA, McFall-Ngai MJ (2011) The occurrence of chitin in the hemocytes of invertebrates. Zoology (Jena) 114(4):191-8 (PMC3243742) · Pubmed
Krasity BC, Troll JV, Weiss JP, McFall-Ngai MJ (2011) LBP/BPI proteins and their relatives: conservation over evolution and roles in mutualism. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 39(4):1039-44 · Pubmed
Phillips NJ, Adin DM, Stabb EV, McFall-Ngai MJ, Apicella MA, Gibson BW (2011) The lipid A from Vibrio fischeri lipopolysaccharide: a unique structure bearing a phosphoglycerol moiety. J. Biol. Chem. 286(24):21203-19 (PMC3122182) · Pubmed
Altura MA, Stabb E, Goldman W, Apicella M, McFall-Ngai MJ (2011) Attenuation of host NO production by MAMPs potentiates development of the host in the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Cell. Microbiol. 13(4):527-37 · Pubmed
Wang Y, Dunn AK, Wilneff J, McFall-Ngai MJ, Spiro S, Ruby EG (2010) Vibrio fischeri flavohaemoglobin protects against nitric oxide during initiation of the squid-Vibrio symbiosis. Mol. Microbiol. 78(4):903-15 (PMC2978254) · Pubmed
Troll JV, Bent EH, Pacquette N, Wier AM, Goldman WE, Silverman N, McFall-Ngai MJ (2010) Taming the symbiont for coexistence: a host PGRP neutralizes a bacterial symbiont toxin. Environ. Microbiol. 12(8):2190-203 (PMC2889240) · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai, MJ, Nyholm SV, Castillo MG (2010) The role of the immune system in the initiation and persistence of the Euprymna scolopes--Vibrio fischeri symbiosis. Semin. Immunol. 22(1):48-53 (PMC3992935) · Pubmed · DOI
Wier AM, Nyholm SV, Mandel MJ, Massengo-Tiassé RP, Schaefer AL, Koroleva I, Splinter-Bondurant S, Brown B, Manzella L, Snir E, Almabrazi H, Scheetz TE, Bonaldo Mde F, Casavant TL, Soares MB, Cronan JE, Reed JL, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2010) Transcriptional patterns in both host and bacterium underlie a daily rhythm of anatomical and metabolic change in a beneficial symbiosis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107(5):2259-64 (PMC2836665) · Pubmed
Lee PN, McFall-Ngai MJ, Callaerts P, de Couet HG (2009) The Embryonic Development of the Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes). Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009(11):pdb.ip77 · Pubmed · DOI
Lee PN, McFall-Ngai MJ, Callaerts P, de Couet HG (2009) Whole-mount in situ hybridization of Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) embryos with DIG-labeled riboprobes: II. Embryo preparation, hybridization, washes, and immunohistochemistry. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009(11):pdb.prot5322 · Pubmed
Lee PN, McFall-Ngai MJ, Callaerts P, de Couet HG (2009) Whole-mount in situ hybridization of Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) embryos with DIG-labeled riboprobes: I. DNA template preparation and in vitro transcription of riboprobes. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009(11):pdb.prot5321 · Pubmed
Lee PN, McFall-Ngai MJ, Callaerts P, de Couet HG (2009) Confocal immunocytochemistry of embryonic and juvenile Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) tissues. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009(11):pdb.prot5320 · Pubmed
Lee PN, McFall-Ngai MJ, Callaerts P, de Couet HG (2009) Preparation of genomic DNA from Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) tissue by cesium chloride gradient centrifugation. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009(11):pdb.prot5319 · Pubmed
Lee PN, McFall-Ngai MJ, Callaerts P, de Couet HG (2009) The Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes): a model to study the molecular basis of eukaryote-prokaryote mutualism and the development and evolution of morphological novelties in cephalopods. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009(11):pdb.emo135 · Pubmed
Handelsman J, McFall-Ngai MJ (2009) Microbial Symbiosis: In Sickness and in Health. DNA and Cell Biology 28(8):359-60 · Pubmed · DOI
Troll JV, Adin DM, Wier AM, Paquette N, Silverman N, Goldman WE, Stadermann FJ, Stabb EV, McFall-Ngai MJ (2009) Peptidoglycan induces loss of a nuclear peptidoglycan recognition protein during host tissue development in a beneficial animal-bacterial symbiosis. Cell. Microbiol. 11(7):1114-27 (PMC2758052) · Pubmed
Tong D, Rozas NS, Oakley TH, Mitchell J, Colley NJ, McFall-Ngai MJ (2009) Evidence for light perception in a bioluminescent organ. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106(24):9836-41 (PMC2700988) · Pubmed
Adin DM, Engle JT, Goldman WE, McFall-Ngai MJ, Stabb EV (2009) Mutations in ampG and lytic transglycosylase genes affect the net release of peptidoglycan monomers from Vibrio fischeri. J. Bacteriol. 191(7):2012-22 (PMC2655524) · Pubmed
Nyholm SV, Stewart JJ, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2009) Recognition between symbiotic Vibrio fischeri and the haemocytes of Euprymna scolopes. Environ. Microbiol. 11(2):483-93 (PMC2652691) · Pubmed
Castillo MG, Goodson MS, McFall-Ngai MJ (2009) Identification and molecular characterization of a complement-C3 molecule in a lophotrochozoan, the Hawaiian bobtail squid Eupyrmna scolopes. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 33(1):69-76 (PMC2642888) · Pubmed · DOI
McFall-Ngai MJ (co-author with other members of the committee) (2009) A new biology for the 21st century. :98
McFall-Ngai, MJ (2008) Are biologists in 'future shock'? Symbiosis integrates biology across domains. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 6(10):789-92 · Pubmed
Chun CK, Troll JV, Koroleva I, Brown B, Manzella L, Snir E, Almabrazi H, Scheetz TE, Bonaldo Mde F, Casavant TL, Soares MB, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2008) Effects of colonization, luminescence, and autoinducer on host transcription during development of the squid-vibrio association. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105(32):11323-8 (PMC2516268) · Pubmed
Adin DM, Phillips NJ, Gibson BW, Apicella MA, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ, Hall DB, Stabb EV (2008) Characterization of htrB and msbB mutants of the light organ symbiont Vibrio fischeri. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74(3):633-44 (PMC2227739) · Pubmed
Dethlefsen L, McFall-Ngai MJ, Relman DA (2007) An ecological and evolutionary perspective on human-microbe mutualism and disease. Nature 449:811-8 · DOI
Whistler CA, Koropatnick TA, Pollack A, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2007) The GacA global regulator of Vibrio fischeri is required for normal host tissue responses that limit subsequent bacterial colonization. Cell. Microbiol. 9(3):766-78 · Pubmed
Koropatnick TA, Kimbell JR, McFall-Ngai MJ (2007) Responses of host hemocytes during the initiation of the squid-Vibrio symbiosis. Biol. Bull. 212(1):29-39 · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ (2007) Care for the community: A memory-based immune system may have evolved in vertebrates because of the need to recognize and manage complex communities of beneficial microbes. Nature 445:153
McFall-Ngai MJ (2007) The squid-vibrio association: A naturally occurring experimental model of animal-bacterial partnerships. :
McFall-Ngai MJ, de Lorenzo V (2007) The ultimate rendezvous: microbial ecology meets industrial microbiology. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 10:205-6
McFall-Ngai, MJ (2006) Love the one you're with: vertebrate guts shape their microbiota. Cell 127(2):247-9 · Pubmed
Cloud-Hansen KA, Peterson SB, Stabb EV, Goldman WE, McFall-Ngai MJ, Handelsman J (2006) Breaching the great wall: peptidoglycan and microbial interactions. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 4(9):710-6 · Pubmed
Chun CK, Scheetz TE, Bonaldo Mde F, Brown B, Clemens A, Crookes-Goodson WJ, Crouch K, DeMartini T, Eyestone M, Goodson MS, Janssens B, Kimbell JL, Koropatnick TA, Kucaba T, Smith C, Stewart JJ, Tong D, Troll JV, Webster S, Winhall-Rice J, Yap C, Casavant TL, McFall-Ngai MJ, Soares MB (2006) An annotated cDNA library of juvenile Euprymna scolopes with and without colonization by the symbiont Vibrio fischeri. BMC Genomics 7:154 (PMC1574308) · Pubmed
Goodson MS, Crookes-Goodson WJ, Kimbell JR, McFall-Ngai MJ (2006) Characterization and role of p53 family members in the symbiont-induced morphogenesis of the Euprymna scolopes light organ. Biol. Bull. 211(1):7-17 · Pubmed
Kimbell JR, Koropatnick TA, McFall-Ngai MJ (2006) Evidence for the participation of the proteasome in symbiont-induced tissue morphogenesis. Biol. Bull. 211(1):1-6 · Pubmed
Sycuro LK, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2006) Confocal microscopy of the light organ crypts in juvenile Euprymna scolopes reveals their morphological complexity and dynamic function in symbiosis. J. Morphol. 267(5):555-68 · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai, MJ, Gordon JI (2006) Experimental models of symbiotic host-microbial relationships: understanding the underpinnings of beneficence and the origins of pathogenesis. :
McFall-Ngai MJ (co-author with other members of the committee) (2006) Treating Infectious Diseases in a Microbial World: Report of Two Workshops on Novel Antimicrobial Therapeutics. :103 · DOI
Goodson MS, Kojadinovic M, Troll JV, Scheetz TE, Casavant TL, Soares MB, McFall-Ngai MJ (2005) Identifying components of the NF-kappaB pathway in the beneficial Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri light organ symbiosis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71(11):6934-46 (PMC1287678) · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ, Henderson B, Ruby EG (2005) The Influence of Cooperative Bacteria on Animal Host Biology. :
Davidson SK, Koropatnick TA, Kossmehl R, Sycuro L, McFall-Ngai MJ (2004) NO means 'yes' in the squid-vibrio symbiosis: nitric oxide (NO) during the initial stages of a beneficial association. Cell. Microbiol. 6(12):1139-51 · Pubmed
Koropatnick TA, Engle JT, Apicella MA, Stabb EV, Goldman WE, McFall-Ngai MJ (2004) Microbial factor-mediated development in a host-bacterial mutualism. Science 306(5699):1186-8 · Pubmed
Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ (2004) The winnowing: establishing the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 2(8):632-42 · Pubmed
Kimbell JR, McFall-Ngai MJ (2004) Symbiont-induced changes in host actin during the onset of a beneficial animal-bacterial association. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70(3):1434-41 (PMC368416) · Pubmed
Ruby EG, Henderson B, McFall-Ngai MJ (2004) We Get By with a Little Help from Our (Little) Friends. Science 303(5662):1305-7
Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ (2003) Dominance of Vibrio fischeri in secreted mucus outside the light organ of Euprymna scolopes: the first site of symbiont specificity. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69(7):3932-7 (PMC165210) · Pubmed
Kimbell JR, McFall-Ngai MJ (2003) The squid-Vibrio symbioses: from demes to genes. Integr. Comp. Biol. 43(2):254-60 · Pubmed
Nyholm SV, Deplancke B, Gaskins HR, Apicella MA, McFall-Ngai MJ (2002) Roles of Vibrio fischeri and nonsymbiotic bacteria in the dynamics of mucus secretion during symbiont colonization of the Euprymna scolopes light organ. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68(10):5113-22 (PMC126412) · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ (2002) Unseen forces: the influence of bacteria on animal development. Dev. Biol. 242(1):1-14 · Pubmed
Kimbell JR, McFall-Ngai MJ, Roderick GK (2002) Two genetically distinct populations of bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, exist on the island of Oahu. Pac. Sci. 56(3):347-55
Foster JS, von Boletzky S, McFall-Ngai MJ (2002) A Comparison of the Light Organ Development of Sepiola robusta naef and Euprymna scolopes berry (CEPHALOPODA: SEPIOLIDAE). Bull. Marine Science 70(1):141-53
McFall-Ngai MJ (2001) Identifying 'prime suspects': symbioses and the evolution of multicellularity. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B, Biochem. Mol. Biol. 129(4):711-23 · Pubmed
Stabb EV, Visick DS, Millikan AA, Corcoran L, Gilson SV, Nyholm MJ, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2001) The Vibrio fischeri-Euprymna scolopes symbiosis: A model marine animal-bacteria interaction. :269-77
Foster JS, Apicella MA, McFall-Ngai MJ (2000) Vibrio fischeri lipopolysaccharide induces developmental apoptosis, but not complete morphogenesis, of the Euprymna scolopes symbiotic light organ. Dev. Biol. 226(2):242-54 · Pubmed
Doino Lemus J, McFall-Ngai MJ (2000) Alterations in the proteome of the Euprymna scolopes light organ in response to symbiotic Vibrio fischeri. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66(9):4091-7 (PMC92263) · Pubmed
Nyholm SV, Stabb EV, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (2000) Establishment of an animal-bacterial association: recruiting symbiotic vibrios from the environment. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97(18):10231-5 (PMC27829) · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ (2000) Negotiations between animals and bacteria: the 'diplomacy' of the squid-vibrio symbiosis. Comp. Biochem. Physiol., Part A Mol. Integr. Physiol. 126(4):471-80 · Pubmed
Visick KL, Foster J, Doino J, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (2000) Vibrio fischeri lux genes play an important role in colonization and development of the host light organ. J. Bacteriol. 182(16):4578-86 (PMC94630) · Pubmed
Hirsch AM, McFall-Ngai MJ (2000) Fundamental Concepts in Symbiotic Interactions: Light and Dark, Day and Night, Squid and Legume. J. Plant Growth Regul. 19(2):113-130 · Pubmed
Visick KL, McFall-Ngai MJ (2000) An exclusive contract: specificity in the Vibrio fischeri-Euprymna scolopes partnership. J. Bacteriol. 182(7):1779-87 (PMC101858) · Pubmed
Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (1999) Oxygen-utilizing reactions and symbiotic colonization of the squid light organ by Vibrio fischeri. Trends Microbiol. 7(10):414-20 · Pubmed
Small AL, McFall-Ngai MJ (1999) Halide peroxidase in tissues that interact with bacteria in the host squid Euprymna scolopes. J. Cell. Biochem. 72(4):445-57 · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ (1999) Consequences of evolving with bacterial symbionts: Insights from the Squid-Vibrio associations. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 30:235-56
McFall-Ngai, M. J (1998) The Development of Cooperative Associations Between Animals and Bacteria: Establishing Detente Among Domains. American Zoologist 38(4):593-608 · DOI
Montgomery MK, McFall-Ngai MJ (1998) Late postembryonic development of the symbiotic light organ of Euprymna scolopes (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae). Biol. Bull. 195(3):326-36 · Pubmed
Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ (1998) Sampling the light-organ microenvironment of Euprymna scolopes: description of a population of host cells in association with the bacterial symbiont Vibrio fischeri. Biol. Bull. 195(2):89-97 · Pubmed
Nishiguchi MK, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (1998) Competitive dominance among strains of luminous bacteria provides an unusual form of evidence for parallel evolution in Sepiolid squid-vibrio symbioses. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64(9):3209-13 (PMC106711) · Pubmed
Foster JS, McFall-Ngai MJ (1998) Induction of apoptosis by cooperative bacteria in the morphogenesis of host epithelial tissues. Dev. Genes Evol. 208(6):295-303 · Pubmed
Lamarcq LH, McFall-Ngai MJ (1998) Induction of a gradual, reversible morphogenesis of its host's epithelial brush border by Vibrio fischeri. Infect. Immun. 66(2):777-85 (PMC107970) · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ, Brennan C, Weis V, Lamarcq L (1998) Mannose adhesin-glycan interactions in the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri symbiosis. :273-6
Nishiguchi MK, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (1998) Phenotypic bioluminescence as an indicator of competitive dominance in the Euprymna-Vibrio symbiosis. :123-6
Nyholm SV, McFall-Ngai MJ (1998) Sampling the light-organ microenvironment of Euprymna scolopes: description of a population of host cells in association with the bacterial symbiont Vibrio fischeri. Biol. Bull. 195(2):89-97
McFall-Ngai, MJ (1998) Pioneering the Squid-Vibrio Model. ASM News 64(11):639-45
McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (1998) Sepiolids and Vibrios: When First They Meet. BioScience 48(4):257-65 · DOI
McFall-Ngai MJ (1997) Dragonfly :
Holland LZ, McFall-Ngai MJ, Somero GN (1997) Evolution of lactate dehydrogenase-A homologs of barracuda fishes (Genus Sphyraena) from different thermal environments: Differences in kinetic properties and thermal stability are due to amino acid substitutions outside of the active site. Biochemistry 36(11):3207-15 · Pubmed
Nishiguchi MK, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (1997) Phenotypic bioluminescence as an indicator of competitive dominance in the Euprymna-Vibrio symbiosis. :123-26
Weis VM, Small AL, McFall-Ngai MJ (1996) A peroxidase related to the mammalian antimicrobial protein myeloperoxidase in the Euprymna-Vibrio mutualism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93(24):13683-8 (PMC19390) · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ (1996) Science Spectrum 4:
Boettcher KJ, Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (1996) Bioluminescence in the symbiotic squid Euprymna scolopes is controlled by a daily biological rhythm. J. Comp. Physiol. 179:65-73
Doino JA, McFall-Ngai MJ (1995) A Transient Exposure to Symbiosis-Competent Bacteria Induces Light Organ Morphogenesis in the Host Squid. Biol. Bull. 189(3):347-55
Gates RD, Hoegh-Guldberg O, McFall-Ngai MJ, Bil KY, Muscatine L (1995) Free amino acids exhibit anthozoan "host factor" activity: they induce the release of photosynthate from symbiotic dinoflagellates in vitro. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92(16):7430-4 (PMC41353) · Pubmed
Montgomery MK, McFall-Ngai MJ (1995) The inductive role of bacterial symbionts in the morphogenesis of a squid light organ. Amer. Zool. 35:372-380
McFall-Ngai MJ (1994) Animal-bacterial interactions in the early life history of marine invertebrates: The Euprymna scolopes/Vibrio fischeri symbiosis Amer. Zool. 34:554-61
Montgomery MK, McFall-Ngai MJ (1994) Bacterial symbionts induce host organ morphogenesis during early postembryonic development of the squid Euprymna scolopes. Development 120(7):1719-29
Tomarev SI, Zinovieva RD, Weis VM, Chepelinsky AB, Piatigorsky J, McFall-Ngai MJ (1993) Abundant mRNAs in the squid light organ encode proteins with a high similarity to mammalian peroxidases. Gene 132(2):219-26 · Pubmed
Montgomery MJ, McFall-Ngai MJ (1993) Embryonic development of the light organ of the sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes Berry. Biol. Bull. 184(3):296-308
Weis VM, Montgomery MK, McFall-Ngai MJ (1993) Enhanced production of ALDH-like protein in the bacterial light organ of the sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes. Biol. Bull. 184(3):309-321
Dove S, Horwitz J, McFall-Ngai MJ (1993) A biochemical characterization of the photophore lenses of the midshipman fish. J. Comp. Physiol. 172:565-72
Small AL, McFall-Ngai MJ (1993) Changes in the oxygen environment of a symbiotic squid light organ in response to infection by its luminous bacterial symbiont. Amer. Zool. 33:61A
Montgomery MK, McFall-Ngai MJ (1992) The muscle-derived lens of a squid bioluminescent organ is biochemically convergent with the ocular lens. Evidence for recruitment of aldehyde dehydrogenase as a predominant structural protein. J. Biol. Chem. 267(29):20999-1003 · Pubmed
Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (1992) A squid that glows in the night: development of an animal-bacterial mutualism. J. Bacteriol. 174(15):4865-70 (PMC206296) · Pubmed
Hensey S, McFall-Ngai MJ (1992) A surface peptide of the bacterium Vibrio fischeri plays a key role in specificity and recognition in the symbiosis with the squid Euprymna scolopes. Amer. Zool. 32:32A
McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (1991) Symbiont recognition and subsequent morphogenesis as early events in an animal-bacterial mutualism. Science 254(5037):1491-4 · Pubmed
Yu N, Cai M, Lee B, Kuck J, McFall-Ngai MJ, Horwitz J (1991) Resonance Raman detection of a carotenoid in the lens of the deep-sea hatchetfish. Exp. Eye Res. 52:475-9
McFall-Ngai MJ, Toller W (1991) Frontiers in the study of the biochemistry and molecular biology of vision and luminescence in fishes. :77-107
McFall-Ngai MJ (1991) Luminous bacterial symbioses in fish evolution: adaptive radiation among the leiognathid fishes. :381-409
McFall-Ngai MJ, Morin JG (1991) Camouflage by disruptive illumination in leiognathids, a family of shallow-water, bioluminescent fishes. J. Exp. Biol. 156:119-37
McFall-Ngai MJ, Montgomery MK (1990) The anatomy and morphology of the adult bacterial light organ of Euprymna scolopes Berry (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae). Biol. Bull. 179(3):332-9
McFall-Ngai MJ, Horwitz J (1990) A comparative study of the thermal stability of the vertebrate eye lens: Antarctic ice fish to the desert iguana. Exp. Eye Res. 50(6):703-9 · Pubmed
Ruby EG, McFall-Ngai MJ (1990) Morphological and physiological differentiation in the luminous bacterial symbionts of Euprymna scolopes. :323-6
McFall-Ngai MJ (1990) Crypsis in the pelagic environment. Amer. Zool. 30:175-88
McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG (1990) The changing host-tissue/symbiont relationship in the developing light organ of Euprymna scolopes (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae). :
McFall-Ngai MJ, Ding LL, Horwitz J (1988) Comparative biochemistry of lens pigmentation in mesopelagic fishes. Biol. Bull. 175(3):397-402
Dunlap PV, McFall-Ngai MJ (1987) Initiation and control of the bioluminescent symbiosis between Photobacterium leiognathi and leiognathid fish. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 503:269-83 · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ, Horwitz J, Ding LL, Lacey L (1986) Age-dependent changes in the heat-stable crystallin, beta basic-principle, of the human lens. Curr. Eye Res. 5:387-94
McFall-Ngai MJ, Crescitelli F, Childress J, Horwitz J (1986) Patterns of pigmentation in the eye lens of the deep-sea hatchet-fish, Argyropelecus affinis Garman. J. Comp. Physiol. 159:791-800
McFall-Ngai MJ, Ding LL, Takemoto LJ, Horwitz J (1985) Spatial and temporal mapping of the age-related changes in human lens crystallins. Exp. Eye Res. 41(6):745-58 · Pubmed
McFall-Ngai MJ, Ding LL, Horwitz J (1985) Biochemical aging of human soluble lens proteins. Exp. Eye Res. 41:745-58
Crescitelli F, McFall-Ngai MJ, Horwitz J (1985) The photic adaptation hypothesis: support from organisms from different habitats. J. Comp. Physiol. 157:323-33
Horwitz J, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ding LL, Yaron O (1985) Thermal stability of lens crystallins. :227-40
Peterson JA, Benson JA, Morin JG, McFall-Ngai MJ (1984) Scaling in tensile skeletons: scale dependent length dimensions of the mammalian Achilles tendon. J. Zool. Lond. 202:361-72
McFall-Ngai MJ, Dunlap PV (1984) External and internal sexual dimorphism in leiognathid fishes:morphological evidence for sex-specific bioluminescent signalling. J. Morph. 182:71-83
Dunlap PV, McFall-Ngai MJ (1984) Leiognathus elongatus (Perciformes:Leiognathidae): Two distinct species based on morphological and anatomical characters. Copeia 4:884-92
McFall-Ngai MJ, Dunlap PV (1983) Three new modes of luminescence in the leiognathid fish, Gazza minuta. Mar. Biol. 74:227-37
McFall-Ngai MJ (1983) Adaptations for reflection of bioluminescent light in the gas bladders of Leiognathus equulus (Perciformes:Leiognathidae). J. Exp. Zool. 227:23-33
Peterson JA, Benson JA, McFall-Ngai MJ, Morin J, Ow C (1982) Scaling in tensile skeletons: Structures with scale-independent length dimensions. Science 217:1267-70
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