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Bacterial diversity and distribution in Soft Corals and Sponges in the Red Sea
- Source :
- Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries. 23:299-304
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Egypts Presidential Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research, 2019.
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Abstract
- The Red Sea has high biodiversity, with at least 266 coral and sponge species. The coral/Sponge holobiont is comprised of the coral/sponge animal and its associated microorganisms consisting of bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses. It has been hypothesized that this interaction plays a role in coral/ sponge defense. This study aims to study the bio-diversity of some collected types of sponge and soft coral from Red Sea and to isolate associated bacteria from them. The result includes five types of sponges; Ircinia strobilina, Callyspongia viridis, Suberea spp., Spongia officinalis and Biemna ehrenbergi and five types of soft corals; Heteroxenia fuscescens, Didemnum moseleyi, Lobophytum pauciflorum, Sarcophyton trocheliophorum and Sinularia spp. Twenty two bacterial isolates were isolated from the sponges with 41 % and thirty two bacterial isolates were isolated from soft coral samples with 59 % collected from different Red Sea areas.
- Subjects :
- biology
Coral
fungi
technology, industry, and agriculture
Zoology
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
Aquatic Science
biology.organism_classification
Ircinia strobilina
Holobiont
Sponge
Callyspongia
population characteristics
Sinularia
Spongia officinalis
Didemnum
geographic locations
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 25369814
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7c88c083c6d356b7b1f3ab4cacd1390c