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The 525 strains of heterotrophic bacteria isolated from natural and cultured populations of the mussel Mytilus trossulus and the surrounding seawater were identified to a genus level on the basis of phenotypic analysis and the fatty acid composition of cell lipids. Gram-negative isolates were dominated by six genera of the family Enterobacteriaceae and by the genera Pseudoalteromonas, Vibrio, Photobacterium, Cytophaga/Flavobacterium/Bacteroides, Pseudomonas, and Moraxella. Gram-positive isolates were mainly represented by the genus Streptomyces. The taxonomic compositions of natural and cultured populations of the mussel M. trossulus in Peter the Great Bay were similar.
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Beleneva, I.A., Zhukova, N.V. & Maslennikova, E.F. Comparative Study of Microbial Communities from Cultured and Natural Populations of the Mussel Mytilus trossulus in Peter the Great Bay. Microbiology 72, 472–477 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025005025620
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