摘要：The planarian species
Schmidtea mediterranea is a flatworm living in freshwater that is used in the research laboratory as a model to study developmental and regeneration mechanisms, as well as antibacterial mechanisms. However, the cultivable microbial repertoire of the microbes comprising its microbiota remains unknown. Here, we characterized the bacterial constituents of a 10-year-old laboratory culture of planarian species
S. mediterranea via culturomics analysis. We isolated 40 cultivable bacterial species, including 1 unidentifiable species. The predominant phylum is
Proteobacteria, and the most common genus is
Pseudomonas. We discovered that parts of the bacterial flora of the planarian
S. mediterranea can be classified as fish pathogens and opportunistic human pathogens.
