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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2003, p. 6587-6596, Vol. 69, No. 11
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6587-6596.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Diversity and Abundance of Uncultured Cytophaga-Like Bacteria in the Delaware Estuary

David L. Kirchman,* Liying Yu, and Matthew T. Cottrell

College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware 19958

Received 18 April 2003/ Accepted 18 August 2003

The Cytophaga-Flavobacterium group is known to be abundant in aquatic ecosystems and to have a potentially unique role in the utilization of organic material. However, relatively little is known about the diversity and abundance of uncultured members of this bacterial group, in part because they are underrepresented in clone libraries of 16S rRNA genes. To circumvent a suspected bias in PCR, a primer set was designed to amplify 16S rRNA genes from the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium group and was used to construct a library of these genes from the Delaware Estuary. This library had several novel Cytophaga-like 16S rRNA genes, of which about 40% could be grouped together into two clusters (DE clusters 1 and 2) defined by sequences initially observed only in the Delaware library; the other 16S rRNA genes were classified into an additional four clades containing sequences from other environments. An oligonucleotide probe was designed for the cluster with the most clones (DE cluster 2) and was used in fluorescence in situ hybridization assays. Bacteria in DE cluster 2 accounted for about 10% of the total prokaryotic abundance in the Delaware Estuary and in a depth profile of the Chukchi Sea (Arctic Ocean). The presence of DE cluster 2 in the Arctic Ocean was confirmed by results from 16S rRNA clone libraries. The contribution of this cluster to the total bacterial biomass is probably larger than is indicated by the abundance of its members, because the average cell volume of bacteria in DE cluster 2 was larger than those of other bacteria and prokaryotes in the Delaware Estuary and Chukchi Sea. DE cluster 2 may be one of the more abundant bacterial groups in the Delaware Estuary and possibly other marine environments.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE 19958. Phone: (302) 645-4375. Fax: (302) 645-4028. E-mail: Kirchman{at}udel.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2003, p. 6587-6596, Vol. 69, No. 11
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6587-6596.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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