Candidatus endobugula sertula

Sudek S, LopanikNB, Waggoner LE, Hildebrand M, Anderson C, Liu HB, Patel A, Sherman DH, Haygood MG (2007) Identification of the putative bryostatin polyketide synthase gene cluster from Candidatus endobugula sertula , the uncultivated microbial symbiont of the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina. J Nat Prod 70 67-74... 

Davidson, S. K. and Haygood, M. G. (1999). Identification of sibling species of the Bryozoan Bugula neritina that produce different anticancer bryostatins and harbor distinct strains of the bacterial symbiont Candidatus Endobugula sertula". Biol. Bull. 196, 273-280. 

Haygood, M. G. and Davidson, S. K., Small-subunit rRNA genes and in situ hybridisation with oligonucleotides specific for the bacterial symbionts in the larvae of the bryozoan Bugula neritina and proposal of Candidatus endobugula sertula, Appl. Env. Microbiol., 63, 4612, 1997. 

Davidson, S.K., Allen, S.W., Lim, G.E., Anderson, C., and Haygood, M.G., Evidence that the bacterial symbiont Candidatus endobugula sertula plays a role in bryostatin biosynthesis in the bryozoan Bugula neritina, Abstract AMS Meeting, 2000. 

In the phylum Bryozoa it is now accepted that are the bacteria of a new genus, Candidatus Endobugula sertula, that produce bryostatins, and the same may be true for amathamides (Davidson et al., 2001) (see Chapter 22). 

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