A recent study of vibrio ecology in the waters off Galicia found that V. parahaemolyticus showed up in 80% of the zooplankton samples collected.
The authors have presented a study of Ethanolamine utilization in Vibrio.
However, a study of the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus, gave the same separation for both MLST and VNTRs typing systems [ 43] which shows that the results obtained for F. psychrophilum are not unique.
In contrast with phenotypic identification methods, two genetic methods, DNA DNA hybridization (DDH) and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA), have successfully been applied to the study of Vibrio taxonomy and evolutionary history (Reichelt et al., 1976; Gomez-Gil et al., 2003; 2004; Thompson et al., 2005; 2007; 2008; Sawabe et al., 2007; Pascual et al., 2009).
Molina-Aja et al. [ 12], in a study of plasmid pattern and antibiotic resistance in Vibrio strains isolated from penaeid, detected an incidence of isolates resistant to cephalothin higher than the present study, with 36.1% of the strains carrying resistance to this β-lactam.
Our findings also suggest that E. coli has a much lower frequency of recombination relative to mutation than was observed in a comparable study of a Vibrio cholerae lineage.
According to a study in Vibrio cholerae[ 51], rpoE mutants attenuate virulence, and the ability of the bacteria to colonise the mouse intestines is reduced.
In this study we report a strain of Vibrio alginolyticus, a species that exhibits similar collective motility but a fundamentally different cell morphology with highly flexible snake-like swarming cells.
In addition to species identification and classification, genomics may also aid in the population structure studies of vibrios [ 51, 52].
