Isolation and Identification of Photobacterium phosphoreum from an Unexpected Niche: Migrating Salmon
Six luminous bacteria were isolated from migrating salmon in the Yukon River, Alaska. All isolates were identified as Photobacterium phosphoreum. Previous studies suggest that P. phosphoreum is an exclusively marine bacterium, while our Alaskan isolates are from salmon which migrated up to 1,228 km...
Published in: | Applied and Environmental Microbiology |
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Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2003
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC262280 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14602659 https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.69.11.6938-6942.2003 |
Summary: | Six luminous bacteria were isolated from migrating salmon in the Yukon River, Alaska. All isolates were identified as Photobacterium phosphoreum. Previous studies suggest that P. phosphoreum is an exclusively marine bacterium, while our Alaskan isolates are from salmon which migrated up to 1,228 km from the marine environment. |
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