Very similar strains of Halococcus salifodinae are found in geographically separated Permo-Triassic salt deposits

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3565-3574

  Stan Lotter, Helga ^a   McGenity, Terry J ^b   Legat, Andrea ^a   Denner, Ewald B M ^c   Glaser, Kurt ^a   Stetter, Karl O ^d   Wanner, Gerhard ^e  

^a Inst of Genet and General Biology   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; Halococcus; Prokaryotic longevity; Salt deposits; Subterranean microbiology

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INSERTION; GERMANY; HALOCOCCUS; HALOCOCCUS SALIFODINAE; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOCOCCUS; HALOCOCCUS SALIFODINAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033401318     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-12-3565     Document Type: Article

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