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Polymerase Chain reaction and 16S rRNA gene sequences from the luminous bacterial symbionts of two deep-sea anglerfishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Margo G. Haygood ,
Daniel L. Distel  and
Peter J. Herring
Margo G. Haygood
Affiliation:
Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Daniel L. Distel
Affiliation:
Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Peter J. Herring
Affiliation:
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, Brook Road, Wormley, Surrey, GU8 5UB
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Sequences of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene of luminous bacterial symbionts from the escas of the deep sea anglerfishes Melanocetus johnsoni and Cryptopsaras couesi were determined by direct sequencing of polymerase chain reaction products. A sequence was also obtained from a strain of Photobacterium phosphoreum, the culturable light organ symbiont of Opisthoproctus grimaldii. Comparison of these and other published sequences showed that the anglerfish symbionts group with the marine luminous bacteria but are not closely related to P. phosphoreum. The two ceratioid symbionts differ from each other at least at the species level.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 149 - 159
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1992

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