Vibrio fischeri The slide show!

There are at least a half dozen or more types of Vibrio bacteria. This is NOT an opportunistic pathogen such as Vibrio vulnifucis, the infamous flesh eater. However, I wouldn't recommend pouring this on your breakfast cereal either. This little critter actually possesses similar chemical mechanisms for bioluminescence as glow worms, fireflies, and bioluminescent varieties of dinoflagellates. They are most commonly found in symbiotic relationships with marine life such as pinecone fish, and Hawaiian Bobtail squid. In the lab, they seem to prefer 18-20C optimal and can last up to a month before subculturing agar is needed. If broth is used, they'll go even longer. This is a little nice organism for beginning microbiology students, because the media is so hard to contaminate...and they're really cool to look at.

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Science & Technology

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• Vibrio
• fischeri

[unholyiiamas]

What media do you grow these in? General?

[Adams42]

I HEART bacteria!!!

[blasphemy94]

informative enough :)

hope u create a vid which entails the novel applications of bioluminescent bacteria :)

[chulstein]

Haha! good luck getting them past stomach pH!

[OuttaEgypt]

LMAO.

[jeannacav]

Very interesting.

thank you

[arkfussion]

If you eat the bacteria and they survive in your intestine, will your turds glow?

[tessabianca]

Very cool!