Marinospirillum alkaliphilum sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic helical bacterium from Haoji soda lake in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China

Extremophiles

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-37

  Zhang, Weizhou ^a   Xue, Yanfen ^a   Ma, Yanhe ^a   Grant, William D ^b   Ventosa, Antonio ^c   Zhou, Peijin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alkaliphile; DNA DNA hybridization; Helical bacteria; Marinospirillum alkaliphilum sp.nov; Phylogeny; Soda lake

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MARINOSPIRILLUM; MARINOSPIRILLUM ALKALIPHILUM; NEGIBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; UBIQUINONE; UBIQUINONE 8;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; CYTOLOGY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BASE COMPOSITION; CHINA; CLIMATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TEMPERATURE; UBIQUINONE;

EID: 0036481928     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920100219     Document Type: Article

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