Short Communication: Identification of culturable marine fungi and bacteria from coastal region in Brunei Darussalam: Identification of culturable marine microbes.

Hussein Taha (Environmental and Life Sciences Program, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Jl. Tungku Link BE1410, Brunei Darussalam)
Pooja Shivanand (Environmental and Life Sciences Program, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Jl. Tungku Link BE1410, Brunei Darussalam)
Mohamad Abdul Azim Zainudin (Environmental and Life Sciences Program, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Jl. Tungku Link BE1410, Brunei Darussalam)
Nurul Azirah Hadanan (Environmental and Life Sciences Program, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Jl. Tungku Link BE1410, Brunei Darussalam)

Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity
Vol. 22 No. 3 (2021)

Abstract. Taha H, Shivanand P, Zainudin MAA, Hadanan NA. 2021. Short Communication: Identification of culturable marine fungi and bacteria from coastal region in Brunei Darussalam. Biodiversitas 22: 1326-1331. Microbial diversity in Brunei Darussalam located on northwest coast of Borneo is not well explored. This study aimed to isolate and identify culturable marine fungi and bacteria from coastal regions. Microbial identification was carried out via DNA barcoding using rRNA-ITS marker for fungi and 16S rRNA marker for bacteria. Nine marine fungal isolates were identified to five genera as Aspergillus, Penicillium, Phialemoniopsis, Purpureocillium and Trametes. However, only one genus, Pseudoalteromonas was identified from ten marine bacterial isolates with at least three different Pseudoalteromonas species expected from the isolation. This study provided an insight into the diversity of culturable marine microbes from a coastal ecosystem. As the microbes were found culturable and can easily grow under saline conditions, they are potential of considerable biotechnological interest.