Abstract
Analyses of 16S rDNA genes were used to identify the microbiota isolated from the mucus of the zoanthid Palythoa caribaeorum at Porto de Galinhas on the coast of Pernambuco State, Brazil. This study is important as the first report of this association, because of the potential biotechnological applications of the bacterium Alcanivorax dieselolei, and as evidence for the presence of a hydrocarbon degrading bacterium in a reef ecosystem such as Porto de Galinhas.
Highlights
Coral reefs are complex ecosystems that provide microniches for enormous diversities of microorganisms (Ainsworth et al, 2010) associated with marine invertebrates such as sponges, cnidarians, and mollusks (Sfanos et al, 2005)
While a number of workers studies have examined the microbiota associated with corals and other marine invertebrates (Castro et al, 2010; Menezes et al, 2010; Trindade-Silva et al, 2012), zoanthids have been little examined in that respect, some investigations of the diversity of bacteria found on zoanthids by Chimetto et al
Fifty bacterial isolates were obtained from the mucus of P. caribaeorum collected on reefs in Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco State, Brazil
Summary
Coral reefs are complex ecosystems that provide microniches for enormous diversities of microorganisms (Ainsworth et al, 2010) associated with marine invertebrates such as sponges, cnidarians, and mollusks (Sfanos et al, 2005). The bacterium Alcanivorax dieselolei was originally isolated from seawater samples and marine sediments contaminated by oil in the Pacific Ocean and described by Liu and Shao (2005).
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