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SUBMITTER: Hirose S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4036046 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hirose Setsuko S Nagashima Kenji V P KV Matsuura Katsumi K Haruta Shin S
Microbes and environments 20120323 3
The diversity of purple phototrophic bacteria in algae-dominated biofilm of a streambed in Tama River, Japan was investigated. Clone library analysis of the pufM gene encoding a subunit of the photochemical reaction center of purple bacteria detected 18 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in several classes of Proteobacteria. Most of the OTUs showed less than 85% identity to the PufM amino acid sequences of known phototrophic bacteria. These results suggest that phylogenetically divergent and unk ...[more]