Ade Yamindago, Nayun Lee, Seonock Woo, Seungshic Yum
The bacterial community associated with apparently healthy and diseased Hydra magnipapillata was investigated by pyrosequencing analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA. Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes were the main phyla associated with the apparently healthy specimens. In diseased Hydra, Chlorobi, Cyanobacteria, Planctomycetes and Actinobacteria were also present in addition to Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes. The diseased specimens were associated with greater abundance of Proteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Burkholderiales and Comamonadaceae. The major taxa contained potentially pathogenic bacteria that may influence health of H. magnipapillata. Species diversity and community composition significantly differed between healthy and diseased H. magnipapillata. © 2017, Korean Society of Environmental Risk Assessment and Health Science and Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature.
South Sea Environment Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Geoje, South Korea; Faculty of Marine Environmental Science, University of Science and Technology, Geoje, South Korea; Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia
