Can bacteria isolated from the gut of a marine fish be termed as marine bacteria? In other words, are these bacteria regarded as bacteria of marine environment?Are such bacteria similar to those isolated from sea water or sediment under sea water (which are usually called the marine bacteria)?
Sea water or sediment under the sea water are also a part of the marine environment. It is unlikely that marine fish will consume non-marine bacteria since freshwater microbes won't survive in salty environment (except some in the estuarine environment). In the most likelihood, bacteria isolated from the gut of marine fish will be marine bacteria. You can run check on them by testing their salt requirements to see if they are marine or not.
Sea water or sediment under the sea water are also a part of the marine environment. It is unlikely that marine fish will consume non-marine bacteria since freshwater microbes won't survive in salty environment (except some in the estuarine environment). In the most likelihood, bacteria isolated from the gut of marine fish will be marine bacteria. You can run check on them by testing their salt requirements to see if they are marine or not.
Thanks Dr. Jaysankar De . I was actually thinking if, by definition/theory, the bacteria of marine fish gut can be called marine bacteria!
Use Zobell marine agar (kind of gold standard) to test if those bacteria are Marine or not.
Thanks again Dr. Jaysankar De. In fact, I don't have to experimentally prove whether or not bacteria isolated from the gut of marine fish are marine bacteria. I am just thinking if such bacteria can be theoretically called marine bacteria or not.
@Hossain Hossain, You can technically call them marine . But my point of concern is that when you've isolated marine bacteria you must have used Zobell or similar media (simple Nutrient agar with addition of salt can serve the purpose). Marine microbes are isolated using media, supplemented with salt (unless the media, such as Zobell, has salt in the original composition).
yes! you can say it is as marine bacteria. I have isolated marine bacteria which is associated with coral. Although it is inside the gut of fish, its environment is ocean. And also you can further culture it in marine agar to make confirm its salt tolarance. (otherwise you can simply make a series of NaCl contained growth media and check the growth). here i have given the link of my artical.
Article Corallibacterium pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Bacte...
Thanks a lot Dr. Sachithra Amarin Hettiarachchi and Dr. Abhijit Mitra.
i think you can consider to do molecular analysis and then can trace back their history where it come from.
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