POTENSI TUNIKATA Polycarpa aurata SEBAGAI SUMBER INOKULUM JAMUR ENDOSIMBION PENGHASIL ANTIMIKROBA

The research on ???Potency of tunicate Polycarpa aurata as a source of inoculum of endosymbiont fungal that produces antimicrobial??? had been done. The research aimed to know the potency of tunicate as a source of inoculum fungal endosymbiont and to characterize isolate symbiont fungal tunicate P.aurata. Tunicate sample was collected from Barrang Lompo waters of Makassar, South Sulawesi. Isolation of endosymbiont fungi tunicate P. aurata was performed using Potato Dextrose Agar medium (PDA). The characterization of isolate fungal endosymbiont from tunicate P. aurata consist of macroscopic and microscopic observation by simple staining and activity testing against phatogenic microbes Salmonella thypi and Candida albicans. There is one isolate was isolated from intestine of tunicate, named PY1. The result of macroscopic and microscopic observation indicated that isolate was suspected to belong to the genus Saccharomyces. Isolate was able to inhibit the growth of pathogenic microbes, which was bacteriocide to Salmonella typhi and fungicide to Candida albicans