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SUBMITTER: Lau SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4572655 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Standards in genomic sciences 20150811
Loktanella hongkongensis UST950701-009P(T) is a Gram-negative, non-motile and rod-shaped bacterium isolated from a marine biofilm in the subtropical seawater of Hong Kong. When growing as a monospecies biofilm on polystyrene surfaces, this bacterium is able to induce larval settlement and metamorphosis of a ubiquitous polychaete tubeworm Hydroides elegans. The inductive cues are low-molecular weight compounds bound to the exopolymeric matrix of the bacterial cells. In the present study we descri ...[more]