Endobiotic bacteria and their pathogenic potential in cnidarian tentacles

Table 3 Pathogen potential of endobiotic bacteria detected in cnidarian tentacles

Bacterial species	Origin (literature data)	Toxic & pathogenic activities	Literature data
Endozoicimonas elysicola	Nudibranch Elysia ornata	Amoebic fish disease	Bowman and Nowak (2004)
Moritella viscosa	Atlantic salmon	Necrotic, “winter ulcer”	Lunder et al. (2000)
Photobacterium profundum SS9	Deep sea crustaceans	ToxR-gene (mediating virulence expression)	Bidle and Bartlett (2001), Ivanova et al. (2004)
Pseudoalteromonas aliena	Seawater	Cytotoxic, haemolytic	Ivanova et al. (2004)
Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis (group #1)	Buffer-fish	Produces tetrodotoxin	Simidu et al. (1990), Ivanova et al. (2001)
Shewanella wachsmanii	Marine worm Phascolosoma sipuncula	Haemolytic	Ivanova et al. (2003)
Vibrio aestuarianus	Oyster juveniles, seawater	Extracellular toxic products	Labreuche et al. (2006), Garnier et al. (2007)
Vibrio splendidus (group #4)	Mostly abundant in corals, oysters, turbot larval gut,	Haemolytic, septicaemic, necrotic	Sugumar et al. (1998), Thompson et al. (2003), Koren and Rosenberg (2006)
Arcobacter butzleri	Brackish marine environment	Human and animal pathogen, secretion of toxic factors	Carbone et al. (2003), Gugliandolo et al. (2007)

Pseudoalteromonas group #1 and Vibrio group #4 contain closely related pathogenic and non-pathogenic species

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