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The diversity of the bacterial communities associated with the azooxanthellate hexacoral Cirrhipathes lutkeni.
The ISME journal - 1 Nov 2007
Santiago-Vázquez Lory Z, Brück Thomas B, Brück Wolfram M, Duque-Alarcón Angela P, McCarthy Peter J, Kerr Russell G
Abstract excerpt
This study examined the symbiotic microbiota of the hexacoral Cirrhipathes lutkeni using traditional plate culture, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and 16S rDNA characterization. FISH counts for the whole coral (holobiont) showed a major presence of gamma-Proteobacteria (22%) and Actinobacteria (19%), followed by alpha-Proteobacteria (14%), Firmicutes (9%), Cytophaga-Flavobacterium (7%),...
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