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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2009, p. 5695-5699, Vol. 75, No. 17
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00035-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Widespread Distribution of Poribacteria in Demospongiae{triangledown}

Feras F. Lafi,1 John A. Fuerst,1* Lars Fieseler,2,{dagger} Cecilia Engels,2 Winnie Wei Ling Goh,1 and Ute Hentschel2

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia,1 Research Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, D-97070 Würzburg, Germany2

Received 7 January 2009/ Accepted 21 June 2009

Poribacteria were found in nine sponge species belonging to six orders of Porifera from three oceans. Phylogenetic analysis revealed four distinct poribacterial clades, which contained organisms obtained from several different geographic regions, indicating that the distribution of poribacteria is cosmopolitan. Members of divergent poribacterial clades were also found in the same sponge species in three different sponge genera.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. Phone: (49) 931 312581. Fax: (49) 931 312578. E-mail: j.fuerst{at}mailbox.uq.edu.au

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 26 June 2009.

{dagger} Present address: Institute for Food Science and Nutrition, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2009, p. 5695-5699, Vol. 75, No. 17
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00035-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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