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WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 10, Pages 2551-2558Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-014-1701-5
Keywords
Coral associated fungi; P. pukoensis; Diversity; Antibacterial activity
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- High-Tech Research and Development Program of China [2013AA092901]
- National Key Laboratory (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Open Foundation [MMLKF13-09]
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The diversity of coral associated fungi is not enough understood, especially for scleractinian corals. Members of Porites are common and dominant species of scleractinian corals. To date, the fungal communities associated with coral Porites pukoensis have been not reported. In this paper, the diversity and activity of coral associated fungi in P. pukoensis were explored, 23 fungal strains were isolated, belonging to 10 genera and Aspergillus sp. (30.4 %) was predominant fungal genera. The sequence of isolate C1-23 in GenBank was only 90 % similarity to the most closely related sequences. It is concluded that rich fungal symbionts are attached to P. pukoensis, the rate of isolates with antibacterial activity was up to 30 %, particularly some isolates showed stronger bioactivities to gram-negative bacteria. It is included that the diversity of coral associated fungi in P. pukoensis is abundant and its activity is obviously. So the activities of fungi in P. pukoensis were deserved for further study.
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