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SUBMITTER: Kroer P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4844607 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kroer Paul P Kjeldsen Kasper U KU Nyengaard Jens R JR Schramm Andreas A Funch Peter P
Frontiers in microbiology 20160426
Priapulus caudatus (phylum Priapulida) is a benthic marine predatory worm with a cosmopolitan distribution. In its digestive tract we detected symbiotic bacteria that were consistently present in specimens collected over 8 years from three sites at the Swedish west coast. Based on their 16S rRNA gene sequence, these symbionts comprise a novel genus of the order Rickettsiales (Alphaproteobacteria). Electron microscopy and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) identified them as extracellular, ...[more]