TY - JOUR
T1 - A rod-like bacterium is responsible for high molybdenum concentrations in the tropical sponge Halichondria phakellioides
AU - Buccella, Constanza
AU - Alvarez de Glasby, Belinda
AU - Gibb, Karen
AU - Padovan, Anna
PY - 2014/7/4
Y1 - 2014/7/4
N2 - The tropical marine sponge, Halichondria phakellioides, from Darwin Harbour contains high concentrations of molybdenum. A rod-like bacterium extracellular in sponge tissue was observed using transmission electron microscopy. Molybdenum was located within these bacteria, but not in sponge cells. This is the first report of the trace element molybdenum localised in a sponge bacterial symbiont. Many different bacterial symbionts were identified in the sponge by sequence analysis so the identity of the molybdenum-accumulating bacterium could only be inferred.
AB - The tropical marine sponge, Halichondria phakellioides, from Darwin Harbour contains high concentrations of molybdenum. A rod-like bacterium extracellular in sponge tissue was observed using transmission electron microscopy. Molybdenum was located within these bacteria, but not in sponge cells. This is the first report of the trace element molybdenum localised in a sponge bacterial symbiont. Many different bacterial symbionts were identified in the sponge by sequence analysis so the identity of the molybdenum-accumulating bacterium could only be inferred.
KW - pyrosequencing, X-ray microanalysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84906707862&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1071/MF13254
DO - 10.1071/MF13254
M3 - Article
SN - 1323-1650
VL - 65
SP - 838
EP - 848
JO - Marine and Freshwater Research
JF - Marine and Freshwater Research
IS - 9
ER -
