Journal of Microbiology

Kae Kyung Kwon

1 Article

Bacterial Diversity of Culturable Isolates from Seawater and a Marine Coral, Plexauridae sp., near Mun-Sum, Cheju-Island: Jung-Hyun Lee , Hyun-Hee Shin , Deuk-Soo Lee , Kae Kyung Kwon , Sang-Jin Kim , Hong Kum Lee; J. Microbiol. 1999;37(4):193-199.

Abstract PDF: Fifty-eight strains showing different colony morphological characteristics on various media were isolated from marine coral (Plexauridae sp.) and ambient seawater near Mun-Sum, Cheju-Island in 1998. Bacterial diversity was studies by phylogenetic analysis of the partial 16S rRNA gene sequences. All isolates representing the bacterial domain included affiliates of the high G+C (59%) and los G+C (3%) subdivision of Gram positive bacteria, and the alpha (33%) and gamma (5%) subdivision of the Proteobacteria. The 16S rDNA sequence similarity of the isolates was in the 88.3 to 100% range (average, 95.6%) to reported sequence data. In the comparison of the isolates from marine coarl and ambient seawater, more diverse groups belonging to alpha-proteobacteria were preferentially obtained from seawater.

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