Janthinobacterium sp. Strain SLB01 as Pathogenic Bacteria for Sponge Lubomirskia baikalensis.

ABSTRACT: Sponges (phylum Porifera) are ancient, marine and inland water, filter feeding metazoans. In recent years, diseased sponges have been increasingly occurring in marine and freshwater environments. Endemic freshwater sponges of the Lubomirskiidae family are widely distributed in the coastal zone of Lake Baikal. The strain Janthinobacterium sp. SLB01 was isolated previously from the diseased sponge Lubomirskia baikalensis (Pallas, 1776), although its pathogenicity is still unknown. The aim of this study was to confirm whether the Janthinobacterium sp. strain SLB01 is the pathogen found in Baikal sponge. To address this aim, we infected the cell culture of primmorphs of the sponge L. baikalensis with strain SLB01 and subsequently reisolated and sequenced the strain

SUBMITTER: Chernogor L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9860564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature