TY - JOUR
T1 - Failure to recover Bacillus thuringiensis from the Lutzow-Holm Bay region of Antarctica
AU - Wasano, N.
AU - Imura, S.
AU - Ohba, M.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - A total of 65 samples, consisting of 19 floral materials and 46 soil samples, collected from a coastal area of Lutzow-Holm Bay on the Antarctic sub-continent, mere examined for the presence of Bacillus thuringiensis. The frequency of samples containing aerobic spore-forming bacteria was 41.5% and most of the sporeformers were not allied to the B. cereus group. Only one sample from a floating mat of blue-green algae contained B. cereus-like sporeformers. However, there was no evidence for the formation of parasporal inclusions in these isolates. The result suggests that the natural microflora of antarctica may lack B. thuringiensis, a mesophile widely distributed in other environments.
AB - A total of 65 samples, consisting of 19 floral materials and 46 soil samples, collected from a coastal area of Lutzow-Holm Bay on the Antarctic sub-continent, mere examined for the presence of Bacillus thuringiensis. The frequency of samples containing aerobic spore-forming bacteria was 41.5% and most of the sporeformers were not allied to the B. cereus group. Only one sample from a floating mat of blue-green algae contained B. cereus-like sporeformers. However, there was no evidence for the formation of parasporal inclusions in these isolates. The result suggests that the natural microflora of antarctica may lack B. thuringiensis, a mesophile widely distributed in other environments.
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U2 - 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1999.00471.x
DO - 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1999.00471.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032892041
VL - 28
SP - 49
EP - 51
JO - Letters in Applied Microbiology
JF - Letters in Applied Microbiology
SN - 0266-8254
IS - 1
ER -