by S. Mar­vin Fried­man — As dis­cussed in a re­cent epic Per­spec­tive on the an­i­mal-mi­crobe sym­bioses (and com­mented in this blog), we are be­gin­ning to un­der­stand the many con­tri­bu­tions made by each part­ner. One of the most widely stud­ied sym­bioses is that of the lu­mi­nous bac­terium Vib­rio fis­cheri and the Hawai­ian Bob­tail squid, Eu­prymna scolopes. In a re­cent pub­li­ca­tion…