PMID- 19363076 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090615 LR - 20240317 IS - 1098-5336 (Electronic) IS - 0099-2240 (Print) IS - 0099-2240 (Linking) VI - 75 IP - 11 DP - 2009 Jun TI - Inter- and intraspecific variations of bacterial communities associated with marine sponges from san juan island, washington. PG - 3513-21 LID - 10.1128/AEM.00002-09 [doi] AB - This study attempted to assess whether conspecific or congeneric sponges around San Juan Island, Washington, harbor specific bacterial communities. We used a combination of culture-independent DNA fingerprinting techniques (terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis [DGGE]) and culture-dependent approaches. The results indicated that the bacterial communities in the water column consisted of more diverse bacterial ribotypes than and were drastically different from those associated with the sponges. High levels of similarity in sponge-associated bacterial communities were found only in Myxilla incrustans and Haliclona rufescens, while the bacterial communities in Halichondria panicea varied substantially among sites. Certain terminal restriction fragments or DGGE bands were consistently obtained for different individuals of M. incrustans and H. rufescens collected from different sites, suggesting that there are stable or even specific associations of certain bacteria in these two sponges. However, no specific bacterial associations were found for H. panicea or for any one sponge genus. Sequencing of nine DGGE bands resulted in recovery of seven sequences that best matched the sequences of uncultured Proteobacteria. Three of these sequences fell into the sponge-specific sequence clusters previously suggested. An uncultured alphaproteobacterium and a culturable Bacillus sp. were found exclusively in all M. incrustans sponges, while an uncultured gammaproteobacterium was unique to H. rufescens. In contrast, the cultivation approach indicated that sponges contained a large proportion of Firmicutes, especially Bacillus, and revealed large variations in the culturable bacterial communities associated with congeneric and conspecific sponges. This study revealed sponge species-specific but not genus- or site-specific associations between sponges and bacterial communities and emphasized the importance of using a combination of techniques for studying microbial communities. FAU - Lee, On On AU - Lee OO AD - Department of Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China. 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Applied and environmental microbiology JID - 7605801 RN - 0 (DNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (DNA, Ribosomal) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Bacteria/*classification/genetics/*isolation & purification MH - *Biodiversity MH - Cluster Analysis MH - DNA Fingerprinting/methods MH - DNA, Bacterial/chemistry/genetics MH - DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry/genetics MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Phylogeny MH - Porifera/*microbiology MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics MH - Seawater/*microbiology MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid MH - Washington PMC - PMC2687283 EDAT- 2009/04/14 09:00 MHDA- 2009/06/16 09:00 PMCR- 2009/12/01 CRDT- 2009/04/14 09:00 PHST- 2009/04/14 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/04/14 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/06/16 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2009/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - AEM.00002-09 [pii] AID - 0002-09 [pii] AID - 10.1128/AEM.00002-09 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Jun;75(11):3513-21. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00002-09. Epub 2009 Apr 10.