Catfish Isolate Bacterial Identification  16S rDNA Sequencing Result Similarity (%)a Length (bp)b GenBank Accession Marine Type Origin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pseudomonas reactans Pseudomonas grimontii Pseudomonas fluorescens Shewanella profunda Shewanella putrefaciens Shewanella baltica Pseudomonas fragi Pseudomonas reactans Pseudomonas grimontii Pseudomonas fluorescens Shewanella profunda Shewanella putrefaciens Pseudomonas fragi Myroides marinus Pseudomonas auricularis Pseudomonas poae Pseudomonas gessardii Pseudomonas fluorescens Pseudomonas gessardii Pseudomonas fluorescens Bacillus aryabhattai Pseudomonas veronii Pseudomonas oryzihabitans Pseudomonas marginalis Rahnella aquatilis Aeromonas veronii Bacillus thuringiensis Bacillus cereus Bacillus thuringiensis Bacillus cereus Enterobacter asburiae Enterobacter cloacae 100 100 100 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 100 100 99 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 99 100 100 99 99 100 100 100 100 99 99 1374 1382 1319 1530 1468 1481 1462 1374 1382 1319 1530 1468 1459 1388 1463 1326 1516 1457 1516 1457 1475 1459 1463 1489 1432 1458 904 909 1396 1450 1465 1437 JN411452 JQ282836 JN411357 FR733713 AB681550 JF327458 AB680221 JN411452 JQ282836 JN411357 FR733713 AB681550 AB685609 GQ857652 AB681727 HQ898911 AF074384 JQ236807 AF074384 JQ236807 JN700141 AB494445 AB681726 HE586396 JN712163 JQ301791 HE648112 HQ873674 JQ342872 JQ248587 HQ242717 HQ220157 Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh/Brackish Fresh/Brackish Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh/Brackish Fresh Fresh/Brackish Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh/Brackish Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh Fresh/Brackish Fresh Fresh/Brackish Fresh Fresh/Brackish Fresh/Brackish Fresh a: Similarity of 16S rDNA region between catfish isolated samples and closest relative found in GenBank database b: base pair used for gene alignment.

Table 1: Gene Alignment of 20 Bacteria Isolated after DNA Sequencing