Anaerobic halo-alkaliphilic bacterial community of athalassic, hypersaline Mono Lake and Owens Lake in California

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4859, Issue , 2002, Pages 130-144

  Pikuta, Elena V ^a   Detkova, Ekaterina N ^b   Bej, Asim K ^c   Marsic, Damien ^d   Hoover, Richard B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^e NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BRINES; CARBONATES; LAKES; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; NEGATIVE IONS; POSITIVE IONS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ANAEROBIC HALO-ALKALIPHILIC BACTERIA; DESULFONATRONUM THIODISMUTANS; DISSIPOTROPIC SACCHAROLYTIC SPIROCHETE; MICROBIAL EXTREMOPHILES;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

EID: 0038529826     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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