Bacillus marismortui sp. nov., a new moderately halophilic species from the Dead Sea

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 521-530

  Arahal, David R ^a   Carmen Marquez, M ^b   Volcani, Benjamin E ^a   Schleifer, Karl H ^b   Ventosa, Antonio ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA sequence; Bacillus marismortui; Cell wall type; DNA DNA similarity; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS MARISMORTUI; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS MARISMORTUI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; VIRGIBACILLUS MARISMORTUI;

EID: 0345211546     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-49-2-521     Document Type: Article

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