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Published in final edited form as: Trends Microbiol. 2016 Mar 20;24(5):414–424. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.02.012

Table 1.

Conserved Stress Responses Among Microbes in Diverse Host Environments

Symbiont response	Host Environment	Symbiont	Ref.

EPS^a production	Squid light organ	Vibrio fischeri	[35, 36]
	Tsetse fly gut	Sodalis glossinidius	[38]
	Clover root	Sinorhizobium meliloti	[24]
Oxidative stress resistance	Leaf surface	Various microbiota	[34]
	Roots	Sinorhizobium meliloti	[104, 105]
	Mouse gut	SFB^b	[45, 46]
Antimicrobial peptide resistance	Hydra mucosa	Various microbiota	[106]
	Squid mucus	Vibrio fischeri	[107]
	Mouse gut	Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	[99]
		Bacteroides thetaiotamicron	[9]
Incorporation of host lipids	Squid light organ	Vibrio fischeri	[101]
	Mouse gut	Enterococcus sp.	[100]
		Staphylococcus sp.	[103]

EPS, extracellular polymeric substance.

SFB, segmented filamentous bacteria. The response is predicted from transcriptional profiling.