Diversity and function of aerobic culturable bacteria in the intestine of the sea cucumber holothuria leucospilota

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 447-456

  Zhang, Xiaochi ^a   Nakahara, Tomomi ^a   Miyazaki, Masayuki ^b   Nogi, Yuichi ^b   Taniyama, Shigeto ^c   Arakawa, Osamu ^c   Inoue, Tetsushi ^c   Kudo, Toshiaki ^c  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Aerobic culturable bacteria; Diversity; Function; Holothuria leucospilota; Sea cucumber

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AEROBIC CELL CULTURE; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRITUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HEAT TREATMENT; HOLOTHURIA; HOLOTHURIA LEUCOSPILOTA; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; SALT TOLERANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; HOLOTHURIA; INTESTINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEA CUCUMBERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO;

EID: 84873848526     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.58.447     Document Type: Article

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