A simple method to isolate salt-tolerant myxobacteria from marine samples

J Microbiol Methods. 2002 Jul;50(2):205-9. doi: 10.1016/s0167-7012(02)00029-5.

Abstract

This paper describes a simple method for the isolation of salt-tolerant myxobacteria from marine conditions. As the results show in this paper, salt-tolerant myxobacteria are found to be able to grow, but unable to form fruiting bodies at high salt concentrations. The fruiting body structures of the salt-tolerant strains were all formed in conditions with lower seawater content, i.e. lower than 60% seawater (about 2.0% salt content) or distilled water supplemented with MgCl(2). The method picked up the fruiting bodies for isolation.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bacteriological Techniques
  • Culture Media
  • Deltaproteobacteria / classification
  • Deltaproteobacteria / drug effects
  • Deltaproteobacteria / growth & development
  • Deltaproteobacteria / isolation & purification*
  • Geologic Sediments / microbiology
  • Seawater / microbiology*
  • Silicon Dioxide / analysis
  • Sodium Chloride / pharmacology*

Substances

  • Culture Media
  • Sodium Chloride
  • Silicon Dioxide