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Team:Evry/Biology/Chassis/Motivation
From 2014.igem.org
A specific chassis for a specific environnement: Seas & Oceans
As seen in the overview our biosensors should work optimaly in native marine conditions, a conditions for which no current chassis in iGEM is ready for.
Moreover it has to attach to sponges and stick with them without disturbing the microbiome for has long as possible.
Therefore came up the necessity to use a bacterium naturally present on the sponges, may it be an epibiont or a symbiont.
To be up to the task the bacterium should have the following properties:
- be massively present on the surface / avoiding being in an unfavorable position for food competition.
- be found mainly in sponges / avoid spreading to species in contact with sponges.
- be the phenotypically closest possible to a known bacterium.
Pseudovibrio is a genus of the bacterial family Rhodobacteraceae which is not very well known in the scientific community.
