Psychroflexus tropicus sp. nov., an obligately halophilic Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group bacterium from an Hawaiian hypersaline lake

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 935-940

  Donachie, Stuart P ^a   Bowman, John P ^b   Alam, Maqsudul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; MYRISTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENOTYPE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHROFLEXUS TROPICUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; UNITED STATES;

BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; FRESH WATER; HAWAII; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HAWAIIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSYCHROFLEXUS; PSYCHROFLEXUS TORQUIS; PSYCHROFLEXUS TROPICUS;

EID: 2942637816     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02733-0     Document Type: Article

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