The bacterial community of the freshwater bryozoan Cristatella Mucedo and its secondary metabolites production potential.

ABSTRACT: While marine bryozoans were shown to be a promising source of bioactive compounds with the potential to be developed into drugs, their freshwater counterparts remain understudied. Considering that bioactive compounds isolated from bryozoans may originate from bacterial communities associated with the hosts, we explored the bacterial community of the freshwater bryozoan Cristatella mucedo using genomics and metabolomics. 16 S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of the bacterial community associated with C. mucedo showed a considerable overlap with communities from surrounding water and sediment. Using different isolation approaches we retrieved a diverse collection of bacterial strains representing 26 genera, including a potentially new one. Genome sequencing and analyses of representative isolat

SUBMITTER: Tocino-Marquez I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12381216 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature