Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6806, 2000, Pages 897-900

  Vreeland, Russell H ^a   Rosenzweig, William D ^a   Powers, Dennis W ^b  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Box 87   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CRYSTAL; DNA SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TIME;

APOIDEA; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIRGIBACILLUS MARISMORTUI; VIRGIBACILLUS PANTOTHENTICUS;

EID: 0034687374     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35038060     Document Type: Article

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