Diversity of the candidate phylum Poribacteria in the marine sponge Aplysina fulva.

ABSTRACT: Poribacterial clone libraries constructed for Aplysina fulva sponge specimens were analysed with respect to diversity and phylogeny. Results imply the coexistence of several, prevalently "intra-specific" poribacterial genotypes in a single sponge host, and suggest quantitative analysis as a desirable approach in studies of the diversity and distribution of poribacterial cohorts in marine sponges.

SUBMITTER: Hardoim CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3804218 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature