Halomonas magadii sp. nov., a new member of the genus Halomonas, isolated from a soda lake of the East African Rift Valley

Extremophiles

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-60

  Duckworth, Andrew W ^a   Grant, William D ^a   Jones, Brian E ^b   Meijer, Daan ^b   Márquez, M Carmen ^c   Ventosa, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Genencor International   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Alkaliphile; Halomonad taxonomy; Halomonas magadii sp. nov.; Phylogeny; Soda lake

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOHALOBACTER; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCING; GENETIC STRAIN; HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS CUPIDA; HALOMONAS DESIDERATA; HALOMONAS ELONGATA; HALOMONAS HALODENITRIFICANS; LAKE; NEW SPECIES; PH; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL RNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMOHALOBACTER; HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS CUPIDA; HALOMONAS DESIDERATA; HALOMONAS ELONGATA; HALOMONAS HALODENITRIFICANS; HALOMONAS MAGADIENSIS; HALOMONAS MAGADII; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034015913     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050007     Document Type: Article

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