Isolation and cultivation of Walsby's square archaeon

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1287-1291

  Bolhuis, Henk ^a   Te Poele, Evelien M ^a   Rodriguez Valera, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARCHAEA; CULTURE MEDIA; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 10044226982     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00692.x     Document Type: Article

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