Moderately halophilic gram-positive bacterial diversity in hypersaline environments

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 297-304

  Ventosa, Antonio ^a   Márquez, M Carmen ^a   Garabito, María J ^a   Arahal, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hypersaline environments; Moderately halophilic bacteria; Phylogeny DNA base composition; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENVIRONMENT; SALT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRESS TOLERANCE;

BACILLUS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENT; FRESH WATER; HALOBACTERIACEAE; PHENOTYPE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOBIA; MICROCOCCUS; NEGIBACTERIA; NESTERENKONIA HALOBIA; POSIBACTERIA; VIRGIBACILLUS SALEXIGENS;

EID: 0032144152     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050072     Document Type: Review

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