Comparisons of the polar lipid and pigment profiles of two solar salterns located in Newark, California, U.S.A., and Eilat, Israel

Extremophiles

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 259-265

  Litchfield, Carol D ^a   Irby, Amy ^a   Kis Papo, Tamar ^b,c   Oren, Aharon ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Halophilic Archaea; Halophilic Bacteria; Solar salterns

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC SALT; LIPID; PIGMENT; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HALOBACTERIUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISRAEL; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CLIMATE; HALOBACTERIACEAE; ISRAEL; LIPIDS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SALTS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0034304716     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920070011     Document Type: Article

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