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Interactions Between Aquatic Chromogenic Bacteria And Pathogenic Vibrio Spp., John Louis Harris
Interactions Between Aquatic Chromogenic Bacteria And Pathogenic Vibrio Spp., John Louis Harris
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Interactions between populations inhabiting an ecosystem are responsible, in large part, for determining which species coexist in that ecosystem. In this study, interactions between selected Vibrio species, V. alginolyticus and V. anguillarum, and marine heterotrophic, chromogenic bacteria in aquatic microcosms were investigated. The ultimate goal of this project was to evaluate the feasibility of ex ploiting competitive interactions as a means to biologically control growth of the pathogenic marine bacteria, V. alginolyticus and V. anguillarum. In the majority of experiments (14/16), if chromogenic species were allowed to develop stable populations before a Vibrio spp. was introduced into a …