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. 2018 Aug 20;9:1914. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01914

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Copyright © 2018 Lin, Lemay and Parfrey.

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Distribution of alginate utilizing taxa within the Gammaproteobacteria. Phylogenetic tree of Gammaproteobacteria genera detected in the M. pyrifera epibiota and surrounding water column in this study, constructed from 16S rRNA gene sequences by placing cultured bacterial isolates into a tree of reference sequences with RAxML EPA. See Supplementary Figure S3 for labeled tree with isolate identities, reference taxa, and accession numbers. Green: cultured bacterial isolates in this study; sequences from isolated bacteria with 99.8–100% 16S similarity were collapsed into operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Blue: cultured isolates from this study whose growth was enriched by at least 50% in the presence of alginate, or that grew with alginate as the sole carbon source (marked with ^∗). Red: cultured isolates in this study that degrade alginate. Purple: cultured isolates whose growth was enhanced and that degrade alginate. Gray: cultured isolates demonstrating neither enhanced growth nor degradation. Detailed information on cultured isolates in Supplementary Table S1.