The Roseobacter group within the family Rhodobacteraceae consists of nearly 70 genera and app. 180 species. They thrive in a broad variety of marine habitats and were found free-living in seawater, as
Illumina MiSeq sequencing was carried out after librar preparation from purified DNA using primers for V3-V4 region of 16S rRNA-gene. DNA libraries were sequenced using a 2x300 . DNA samples from two