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The Pathogen of the Great Barrier Reef Sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile Is a New Strain of Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans Containing Abundant and Diverse Virulence-Related Genes.
Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Aug 2015
Choudhury Jayanta D, Pramanik Arnab, Webster Nicole S, Llewellyn Lyndon E, Gachhui Ratan, Mukherjee Joydeep
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Sponge diseases have increased dramatically, yet the causative agents of disease outbreaks have eluded identification. We undertook a polyphasic taxonomic analysis of the only confirmed sponge pathogen and identified it as a novel strain of Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans. 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and gyraseB (gyrB) gene sequences along with phenotypic characteristics demonstrated that strain NW4327 was most...
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