We present here the first evidence of the presence of iron uptake mechanisms in the bacterial fish pathogen Tenacibaculum maritimum. Representative strains of this species, with different serotypes and origins, were examined. All of them were able to grow in the presence of the chelating agent ethylenediamine-di-(o-hydroxyphenyl acetic acid) (EDDHA) and also produced siderophores. Cross-feeding...

Abstract Coastal dunes are extremely fragile and threatened ecotones, which play a key environmental role in terms of functional connection between terrestrial marine ecosystems. To counteract the hydrogeological vulnerability coastal risk areas, reliance can be made on soil bioengineering techniques, consisting planting native species combination with natural inert materials. These interventio...

The Mediterranean coastline is a dynamic and complex system which owes its complexity to its past and present vicissitudes, e.g. complex tectonic history, climatic fluctuations, and prolonged coexistence with human activities. A plant species that is widespread in this habitat is the sea daffodil, Pancratium maritimum (Amaryllidaceae), which is a perennial clonal geophyte of the coastal sands o...

The Romboutsia maritimum sp. nov. CCRI-22766T strain was isolated from coastal estuarine mud in New Zealand. The genome assembly comprised 2,854,352 bp, with 27.1% G+C content. This is the first documentation that reports the genome sequence of R. maritimum.

Recently, Mouriño et al. (2008) reported the first record in Brazil of the filamentous bacteria Flexibacter maritimus (Wakabayashi et al., 1986) from the hatching of Litopenaeus vannamei post-larvae (Boone, 1931). In our view, a generalized lack of clarity about this identification has occurred and the discussion of some issues raised in the work is beyond the scope of this commentary. As Mouri...

Ungiminorine N-oxide was isolated from Puncrutium maritimum, and homolycorine N-oxide and O-methyl lycorenine N-oxide from Lapiedra martinezii. These compounds represent the first examples of naturally occurring Noxides from the Amaryllidaceae.

The aim of this paper was to evaluate the effect of the tinctures obtained by the aerial parts of three indigenous Eryngium species (Eryngium planum, E. campestre and E. maritimum) by an acute inflammation model in rats. The anti-inflammatory properties of saponins, coumarins, flavonoids, caffeic acid and plant sterols are well – known. Previous data on Eryngium species reported the anti-exudat...

Tenacibaculum maritimum is the etiological agent of marine flexibacteriosis disease, with the potential to cause severe mortalities in various cultured marine fishes. The development of effective preventive measures (i.e. vaccination) requires biochemical, serological and genetic knowledge of the pathogen. With this aim, the biochemical and antigenic characteristics of T. maritimum strains isol...

A specific and sensitive multiplex PCR (mPCR) method was developed as a useful tool for the simultaneous detection of two important flatfish pathogens in marine aquaculture, Tenacibaculum maritimum and Edwardsiella tarda. In fish tissues, the average detection limit for these mPCR-amplified organisms was 2 × 10 ⁵ ± 0.2 CFU/g and 4 × 10 ⁵ ± 0.3 CFU/g, respectively. These values are similar or ev...

Tenacibaculum maritimum is the aetiological agent of an ulcerative disease known as tenacibaculosis, which affects a large number of marine fish species in the world and is of considerable economic significance to aquaculture producers. Problems associated with epizootics include high mortality rates, increased susceptibility to other pathogens, high labour costs of treatment and enormous expen...