Received: JAccepted: SeptemPublished: October 21, 2015Ĭopyright: © 2015 Ngangbam et al. PLoS ONE 10(10):Įditor: Jose Luis Balcazar, Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), SPAIN orbita.Ĭitation: Ngangbam AK, Baten A, Waters DLE, Whalan S, Benkendorff K (2015) Characterization of Bacterial Communities Associated with the Tyrian Purple Producing Gland in a Marine Gastropod. and the presence of bacteria with brominating capabilities in the hypobranchial gland suggest bacteria have a potential role in biosynthesis of Tyrian purple in D. A higher abundance of indole producing Vibrio spp. In comparison to the foot, the hypobranchial gland had significantly lower bacterial diversity and a different community composition, based on taxonomic assignment at the genus level.
The dominant bacterial phylum in the 16S rRNA bacterial profiling data set was Proteobacteria followed by Bacteroidetes, Tenericutes and Spirochaetes. This analysis revealed a highly diverse bacterial assemblage associated with the hypobranchial gland and foot tissues of D. Taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of variable region V1-V3 of 16S rRNA bacterial gene amplicons in QIIME and MEGAN were carried out. This study aimed to assess the diversity and identity of bacteria associated with the Tyrian purple producing hypobranchial gland, in comparison with foot tissue, using a high-throughput sequencing approach. Dicathais orbita is a marine mollusc recognised for the production of anticancer compounds that are precursors to Tyrian purple.
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