Researchers have known that the bobtail squid recruits Vibrio fischeri from the ocean to provide bioluminescent camouflage, ...

The Hawaiian bobtail squid, a small, multi-colored native of coastal waters in Hawai'i, uses bioluminescence to camouflage itself and evade predators. However, the costume change is only possible ...

Researchers have found there is a bacterial protein "key" that allows the Hawaiian bobtail squid to develop a healthy body and its bioluminescent ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — If your gut bacteria is getting you down–you may take note of how Michigan State University scientists have been studying bacteria using the glowing Hawaiian bobtail squid.

Glowing bacteria in the tiny Hawaiian bobtail squid may shed new light on the role bacteria play in the human body to synchronize daily tasks such as sleeping and eating, and keeping the immune system ...

Figure 1When postdoctoral researcher Wendy Crookes and colleagues at the University of Hawaii-Manoa searched for membrane proteins that allow the immune system of the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna ...

How much squid do short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the coast of Hawai'i need to consume each day to survive and are there sufficient squid to sustain the population? Knowing ...

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.

Fluorescence confocal microscopy was used to track how the protein moved throughout the squid when SypC was present and absent. The Hawaiian bobtail squid, a small, multi-colored native of coastal ...