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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2006, p. 1680-1683, Vol. 72, No. 2
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.72.2.1680-1683.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Characterization of Bacterial Communities Associated with Deep-Sea Corals on Gulf of Alaska Seamounts{dagger}

Kevin Penn,1 Dongying Wu,1 Jonathan A. Eisen,1,2 and Naomi Ward1,3*

The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850,1 Johns Hopkins University, Charles and 34th Streets, Baltimore, Maryland 21218,2 Center of Marine Biotechnology, 701 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 202123

Received 22 June 2005/ Accepted 8 November 2005

Although microbes associated with shallow-water corals have been reported, deepwater coral microbes are poorly characterized. A cultivation-independent analysis of Alaskan seamount octocoral microflora showed that Proteobacteria (classes Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria), Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, and Acidobacteria dominate and vary in abundance. More sampling is needed to understand the basis and significance of this variation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850. Phone: (301) 795-7813. Fax: (301) 838-0208. E-mail: nward{at}tigr.org.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org/.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2006, p. 1680-1683, Vol. 72, No. 2
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.72.2.1680-1683.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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