Diversity of bacteriorhodopsins in different hypersaline waters from a single Spanish saltern

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1039-1045

  Papke, R Thane ^a   Douady, Christophe J ^a   Doolittle, W Ford ^a   Rodríguez Valera, Francísco ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIORHODOPSINS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0242676230     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00501.x     Document Type: Article

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