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https://theses.gla.ac.uk/ Theses Digitisation: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/research/enlighten/theses/digitisation/ This is a digitised version of the original print thesis. Copyright and moral rights for this work are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This work cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Enlighten: Theses https://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] BACTERIAL ASSOCIATIONS WITH COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT MARINE BIVALVES by Eileen Lane Thesis presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Science, University of Glasgow Department of Microbiology, May 1997 Copyright © ; Eileen Lane. ProQuest Number: 10391365 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10391365 Published by ProQuest LLO (2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLO. ProQuest LLO. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.Q. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 University o f ÇCosyoïV .S” GlASG0y;UM(VE8aiV LIBmV Dedicated to my mother and late father, Angela and Morgan Lane. To my family and friends, thank you for all the kindness that you have shown to me. 11 Many a mickle maks a muckle (Author unknown) Ill ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Thomas H. Birkbeck for allowing me to do this project and for his help, guidance and patience throughout. I am also endebted to Prof. Alastair C. Wardlaw for his invaluable advice and assistance with the text. I am grateful to Mr. John Bayes, Seasalter Shellfish (Whitsable) Limited, Kent, Mr. Mark Dravers, Guernsey Sea Farms Limited, Guernsey, Channel Islands and Dr. Susan Utting, (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) Conwy, Wales, for the provision of specimens. I would also like to thank Dr. Jean-Louis Nicolas, Ifremer, Brest, Dr. Alicia E. Toranzo and Dr. Juan L. Barja, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Departamento de Microbiologia, Santiago, Spain and Dr. Pauline Munro, University of Glasgow, Scotland, for the provision of bacterial isolates. Thank you to Mr. John Redshaw for his assistance with the oyster embryo assay. To the members of the Microbiology Department and my friends, thank you all for your support, encouragement and friendship. Finally I would like to thank the Directorate General XIV of the European Community for providing the financial support for this project under the FAR programme. IV LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS A Absorbance BRD Brown Ring Disease C Control c.f.u. Colony forming units CAM Calcein-AM CLED Cysteine Lactose Electrolyte Deficient Medium C.P.D. Critical point dryer CT Ciliostatic toxin Da Dalton DMSO Dimethyl sulphoxide D-PBS Dulbecco's phosphate buffered saline ETHD Ethidium Homodimer FH Filtered haemolymph FSW Filtered sea water h Hour g Gram 1 Litre LD50 Lethal dose 50 LPS Lipopolysaccharide M.W. Molecular weight MA Marine agar MB Marine broth min Minute ml Millilitre mM Millimolar MOF Marine Oxidative/Fermentative Medium MPS Mytilus edulis physiological saline. NCIMB National Collection of Industrial and Marine Bacteria NMWL Nominal molecular weight limit OD Optical density ONPG 0-Nitrophenyl-^-D-galactopyranoside OVVD Oyster Velar Virus Disease PEG Polyethylene glycol PMS Phenazine methosulphate PT Pertussis toxin SDS Sodium dodecyl sulphate SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy Sj Jaccard Similarity Coefficient Sp. Speciea SSM Simple Matching Similarity Coefficient TCBS Thiosulphate Citrate Bile Salts Sucrose U Units \xg Microgram (il Microlitre jxm Micrometre UPGMA Unweighted pair group method with averages VP V oges-Proskauer v/v Volume per volume w/v Weight per volume XTT 2, 3 -bis [2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl]-2-H-tetrazolium-5 carboxanilide inner salt VI INDEX OF FIGURES Figure number Page 1 Outline of hatchery culture. 5 2 Phase contrast photographs (Ai and Bi, x 40) and scanning electron micrographs (Aii, x 200), (Bii, x 100) of oyster larvae {Ostrea edulis), (A) treated or (B) not treated with Benzalkonium chloride. 44 3 Cluster analysis of bacterial isolates from Guernsey, analysed by Jaccard Similarity Coefficient (S j) linked with UPGMA method and the programme. Bacterial Identifier (Bryant et al, 1986). A reference strain V006 (V. anguillarum 6) was included. 55 4 Cluster analysis of bacterial isolates from Guernsey, analysed by Simple Matching, Similarity Coefficient (SsM) linked with UPGMA method and the programme. Bacterial Identifier. 56 5 Cluster analysis of bacterial isolates from Conwy and Reculver analysed by Jaccard Similarity Coefficient (Sj) linked with the UPGMA method and the programme. Bacterial Identifier. 58 6 Cluster analysis of bacterial isolates from Conwy and Reculver, analysed by Simple Matching, Similarity Coefficient (SsM) linked with the UPGMA method and the programme. Bacterial Identifier. 59 7 Cluster analysis of bacterial isolates from Conwy, Guernsey and Reculver analysed by Jaccard, Similarity Coefficient (Sj) linked with the UPGMA method and the programme. Bacterial Identifier. 63 ï V il Figure number Page 8 Cluster analysis of bacterial isolates from Conwy, Guernsey and Reculver, analysed by Simple Matching, Similarity Coefficient (SsM) linked with the UPGMA method and the programme. Bacterial Identifier. 64 9 A simplified dendrogram of 113 isolates originating from France (16), Spain (54), United Kingdom (34) and reference bacterial strains (9) as produced by a group of French researchers. 65 10 The effects of bacteria on oyster larvae. 68 11 Visual observation of haemocyte survival indicated by the ability of the haemocyte to take up neutral red dye, after incubation with various bacteria suspended in filtered sea water and at different c.f.u. per haemocyte. 71 12 The effect of incubation of Mytilus haemocytes with various bacteria for 3 h at 20 ^C, deteiTOined by neutral red absorbance at 540 nm or fluorescence at 400 nm. Bacteria tested were suspended in filtered sea water. 73 13 The effect of bacteria on Mytilus haemocytes. XTT was used to determine the number of live haemocytes after incubation with different bacteria for . 45 min at 20 ^C. 74 14 Antibiotic toxicity screening using Mytilus haemocytes, XTT and antibiotic ■ concentrations ranging between 0.01 and 1 mg/0.1 ml. 76 15 The effect of different vibrios on Mytilus haemocytes as determined using calcein-AM. 78 16 Effects of increasing ethanol concentration on the viability of Mytilus haemocytes assessed by uptake of ethidium homodimer. 79 Vlll Figure number Page 17 Effect of haemocyte suspension volume and length of incubation with ETHD on the fluorescence signal. 81 18 The effect of increasing bacteria/haemocyte ratios on the toxicity of bacteria to haemocytes from Mytilus edulis. 82 19 The effect of 100 and 1000 c.f.u. per haemocyte, on the toxicity of Vibrio spp. (V6, V I197, V1338, V1339, V1340, V2166, V2981, V5679, V91079, VBl or VB51) or P I-1-1, suspended in FSW and when screened for their toxicity to Mytilus haemocytes using ethidium homodimer. 83 20 The effect of incubation time on the toxicity of V I339 or V2981 to Mytilus haemocytes. Haemocytes were incubated for (a) 3 h or (b) 6 h with V I339 or V2981 (50, 100 or 500 / haemocyte) and the subsequent viability of haemocytes assessed using ethidium homodimer. 85 21 The effect of caffeine and buffers on Myri/w.s'haemocytes. 86 22 The effect of incubation media, FSW (22 a) or FH (22 b), on the toxicity of V I339 to Mytilus haemocytes at 10 to 1000 c.f.u. per haemocyte and incubated for 3 h at 20 ^C. 87 23 The toxic effect of V1338, V1339, V2165, V2981 or V6 to Mytilus haemocytes when suspended in FH at bacterial ratios of 0.1 to 100 c.f.u. per haemocyte and incubated for 3 h at 20 88 24 The effect of Pseudomonas 1-1-1 or V2981, suspended in FH or FSW, on haemocytes of Mytilus edulis. 90 25 Kinetics of rounding of Mytilus haemocytes on interaction with V. anguillarum 2981 or V, anguillarum A7. 92 IX Figure number Page 26 Toxicity of bacterial isolates from various shellfish hatcheries to haemocytes at 50 c.f.u. per haemocyte. 97 27 Toxicity of 9 test bacteria to haemocytes of Mercenaria mercenaria. Tapes decussatus and Tapes semidecussatus. 102 28 Toxicity of 9 test bacteria to haemocytes of Crassostrea gigas, Ostrea edulis, Mytilus edulis and Pecten maximus. 106 29 Effect of incubation temperature on the toxicity of Vibrio anguillarum 2981 to haemocytes of Mytilus edulis. 107 30 Effect of bacterial and peptone concentrations on the toxicity of the V. anguillarum 29^1 to haemocytes. 109 31 SDS-PAGE analysis of filtered haemolymph before and after absorption with V. anguillarum 2981 lipopolysaccharide. 111 32 Effect of trypsin treatment of filtered haemolymph on the toxic effect of V. anguillarum 2981 to Mytilus haemocytes. 114 33 The effect of FSW, untreated FH or bacteria-treated FH as diluents, on the toxicity of V. anguillarum 2981 to Mytilus haemocytes. 115 34 Toxicity to Mytilus haemocytes of bacteria-free culture filtrates. 118 35 Cluster analysis of bacterial isolates from turbot hatcheries. 125 36 Vésiculation of haemocytes after incubation with bacterial isolate NT 17.