epibiont phenotype

METPO:1007093 · CLASS · SEEDED

A phenotype characterized by a microbe that lives on the external surface of a host organism or substrate, as distinct from endosymbionts (which live inside the host); captures host-association mode, not specific host taxonomy.

Trait evidence (2)

DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.042838-0
were isolated from the marine alga Ulva australis

Penesyan et al. describe Epibacterium ulvae strains U95 and U82 as bacteria associated with the marine green alga Ulva australis.
https://bacdive.dsmz.de/strain/24523
isolated from surface of the marine green alga Ulva australis

BacDive records the E. ulvae type strain U95 as isolated from the external surface of the marine green alga Ulva australis.

Provenance

Identifier source: METPO (2026-06-12)
Author: Marcin Joachimiak
Definition source: DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.042838-0

Parent traits (1)

phenotype METPO:1000059

Synonyms (2)

ectosymbiont EXACT_SYNONYM · metpo.owl
epibiont EXACT_SYNONYM · metpo.owl

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Canonical examples (1)

Organisms cited as exemplars of this trait. Taxon ids are NCBITaxon and link out to the NCBI record.

Epibacterium ulvae NCBITaxon:1156985 https://bacdive.dsmz.de/strain/24523 Species represented by type strain U95 (= DSM 24752 = LMG 26464), which was isolated from the surface of the marine green alga Ulva australis.

Curation history

2026-09-11T09:17:09Z · SEEDED_FROM_METPO · seed_from_metpo
imported from data/raw/metpo.owl (CLASS)
2026-09-11T09:20:00Z · ENRICHED_FROM_LITERATURE · codex
Enriched the seeded METPO epibiont phenotype with DOI- and stable-URL-backed Epibacterium ulvae surface-association evidence after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files.