title: Diversity and antibacterial activities of culturable fungi associated with coral Porites pukoensis.
abstract: The diversity of coral associated fungi is not enough understood, especially for scleractinian corals. Members of Porites are common and dominant species of scleractinian corals. To date, the fungal communities associated with coral Porites pukoensis have been not reported. In this paper, the diversity and activity of coral associated fungi in P. pukoensis were explored, 23 fungal strains were isolated, belonging to 10 genera and Aspergillus sp. (30.4 %) was predominant fungal genera. The sequence of isolate C1-23 in GenBank was only 90 % similarity to the most closely related sequences. It is concluded that rich fungal symbionts are attached to P. pukoensis, the rate of isolates with antibacterial activity was up to 30 %, particularly some isolates showed stronger bioactivities to gram-negative bacteria. It is included that the diversity of coral associated fungi in P. pukoensis is abundant and its activity is obviously. So the activities of fungi in P. pukoensis were deserved for further study.
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing of Aquatic Products of Guangdong Higher Education Institution, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, 524025, China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Xiaoling
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.forename: Shenglan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Zhiyong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D037421:Anthozoa / Q000382:microbiology*; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D000898:Antibiosis; D001419:Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000032:analysis; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005658:Fungi / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013559:Symbiosis
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D004271:DNA, Fungal