Description of prokaryotic biodiversity along the salinity gradient of a multipond solar saltern by direct PCR amplification of 16S rDNA

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 329, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 19-31

  Benlloch, Susana ^a   Acinas, Silvia G ^a   Martinez Murcia A J ^a   Rodríguez Valera, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Biodiversity; halophilic Archaea; halophilic Bacteria; hypersaline environments

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOARCULA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOBIUM MARINUM; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0029862582     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00034544     Document Type: Article

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