This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowReprints and Permissions
Right arrow Copyright Information
Right arrow Books from ASM Press
Right arrow MicrobeWorld
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lim-Fong, G. E.
Right arrow Articles by Haygood, M. G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Lim-Fong, G. E.
Right arrow Articles by Haygood, M. G.
Agricola
Right arrow Articles by Lim-Fong, G. E.
Right arrow Articles by Haygood, M. G.

 Previous Article  |  Next Article 

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2008, p. 3605-3609, Vol. 74, No. 11
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02798-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Evolutionary Relationships of "Candidatus Endobugula" Bacterial Symbionts and Their Bugula Bryozoan Hosts{triangledown}

Grace E. Lim-Fong,1,3 Lindsay A. Regali,3 and Margo G. Haygood2*

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology Research Division, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0202,1 Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, Oregon 97006-8921,2 Department of Biology, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia 230053

Received 11 December 2007/ Accepted 24 March 2008

Ribosomal gene sequences were obtained from bryozoans in the genus Bugula and their bacterial symbionts; analyses of host and symbiont phylogenetic trees did not support a history of strict cospeciation. Symbiont-derived compounds known to defend host larvae from predation were only detected in two out of four symbiotic Bugula species.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006-8921. Phone: (503) 748-1993. Fax: (503) 748-1464. E-mail: haygood{at}ebs.ogi.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 4 April 2008.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2008, p. 3605-3609, Vol. 74, No. 11
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02798-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





Copyright © 2009 by the American Society for Microbiology.   For an alternate route to Journals.ASM.org, visit: http://intl-journals.asm.org | More Info»