Chemotaxis of pathogenic Vibrio strains towards mucus surfaces of gilt- head sea bream (Sparus aurata L.)

Abstract

Vibro anguillarum and Vibrio alginolyticus exhibited significant adhesion to and chemotactic abilities towards mucus collected from the skin, gills, and intestine of gilt-head sea bream. Quadratic polynomial models for cherootaxis designed to estimate the influence of temperature demonstrated a differential bacterial cherootaxis depending of the source of the mucus, with the chemotaxis towards intestinal mucus being the least influenced.