| refined identification of vibrio bacterial flora from acanthasther planci based on biochemical profiling and analysis of housekeeping genes. | we used a polyphasic approach for precise identification of bacterial flora (vibrionaceae) isolated from crown-of-thorns starfish (cots) from lizard island (great barrier reef, australia) and guam (u.s.a., western pacific ocean). previous 16s rrna gene phylogenetic analysis was useful to allocate and identify isolates within the photobacterium, splendidus and harveyi clades but failed in the identification of vibrio harveyi-like isolates. species of the v harveyi group have almost indistinguisha ... | 2011 | 22013751 |