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 from the marine environment.
Budsberg
K J
KJ
Institute of Arctic Biology and Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA.
Wimpee
C F
CF
Braddock
J F
JF
D000413:Alaska; D025041:Animal Migration; D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000032:analysis; D017753:Ecosystem; D008163:Luminescent Measurements; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017684:Oncorhynchus kisutch / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000502:physiology; D010776:Photobacterium / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S