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Distribution and transmission of the symbiont bacteria in the buds of the sponge, Cinachyrella australiensis (Demospongiae: spirophorida)

The sponge Cinachyrella australiensis (Demospongiae: Spirophorida) is widely distributed in Indian ocean, West Pacific ocean, and Australian waters. It also can be found in the intertidal pools of Wun-Li-Ton in southern Taiwan. The sponge can propagate asexually by budding. According to the previous studies, this sponge was suspected to be symbiotic with sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophic bacteria. How the generation do obtain this symbiont is still unknow. In this study, PCR was used to amplify the DNA extracted from buds and sponges to obtained the 16S rDNAs. A total of 20 clones from each bud and mature sponge samples were randomly selected and sequenced. The results indicated that the major symbiotic bacteria constitute 65¢H of the clones derived form the mature sponge and 15¢H from the buds. The dominant symbionts contain RubisCO gene and are related to the sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophic bacteria, associated with the tube worms of the deep sea hydrothermal vents. The location of the sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophic bacteria was observed by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). It was found that the sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophic bacteria were intracellular symbiosis within the cells of cortex, archaeocytes of mesoglial, and bud. Similar results were also observed at the junction of a developing bud and mature sponge. Apparently, the symbionts are transmitted from sponge to bud vertically. Furthermore, in this study, we also found several other intracelluar symbionts besides the major symbiotic bacterium,some of them are autotrophic in nature.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0210107-235533
Date10 February 2007
CreatorsYang, Ya-wen
ContributorsJong-kang Liu, Zhi-hong Wen, Chi-Hsin Hsu
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0210107-235533
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