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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2003, p. 2395-2398, Vol. 69, No. 4
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.2395-2398.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Wide Geographic Distribution of Bacteriophages That Lyse the Same Indigenous Freshwater Isolate (Sphingomonas sp. Strain B18)

Arite Wolf,1,2 Jutta Wiese,1 Günter Jost,2 and Karl-Paul Witzel1*

Max Planck Institute for Limnology, 24302 Plön,1 Baltic Sea Research Institute, 18119 Rostock, Germany2

Received 6 May 2002/ Accepted 2 January 2003

An indigenous freshwater bacterium (Sphingomonas sp. strain B18) from Lake Plußsee (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) was used to isolate 44 phages from 13 very different freshwater and brackish habitats in distant geographic areas. This bacterial strain was very sensitive to a broad spectrum of phages from different aquatic environments. Phages isolated from geographically distant aquatic habitats, but also those from the same sample, were diverse with respect to morphology and restriction pattern. Some phages were widely distributed, while different types coexisted in the same sample. It was concluded that phages could be a major factor in shaping the structure of bacterial communities and maintaining a high bacterial diversity.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Max Planck Institute for Limnology, P.O. Box 165, 24302 Plön, Germany. Phone: 49 4522 763 265. Fax: 49 4522 763 310. E-mail: witzel{at}mpil-ploen.mpg.de.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2003, p. 2395-2398, Vol. 69, No. 4
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.2395-2398.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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