| Title | Bacterial Diversity of Culturable Isolates from Seawater and a Marine Coral, Plexauridae sp., near Mun-Sum, Cheju-Island |
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| Author | Jung-Hyun Lee, Hyun-Hee Shin, Deuk-Soo Lee, Kae Kyung Kwon, Sang-Jin Kim, and Hong Kum Lee * |
| Address | Microbiology Lab., Marine Biology Division, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute Ansan, P.O. Box 29, Seoul 425-600, Korea |
| Bibliography | Journal of Microbiology, 37(4),193-199, 1999, |
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| Key Words | Bacterial diversity, seawater, marine coral, 16S rDNA |
| Abstract | Fifty-eight strains showing different colony morphological characteristics on various media were isolated from marine coral (Plexauridae sp.) and ambient seawater near Mun-Sum, Cheju-Island in 1998. Bacterial diversity was studies by phylogenetic analysis of the partial 16S rRNA gene sequences. All isolates representing the bacterial domain included affiliates of the high G+C (59%) and los G+C (3%) subdivision of Gram positive bacteria, and the alpha (33%) and gamma (5%) subdivision of the Proteobacteria. The 16S rDNA sequence similarity of the isolates was in the 88.3 to 100% range (average, 95.6%) to reported sequence data. In the comparison of the isolates from marine coarl and ambient seawater, more diverse groups belonging to alpha-proteobacteria were preferentially obtained from seawater. |
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