A traditional Japanese-style salt field is a niche for haloarchaeal strains that can survive in 0.5% salt solution

Saline Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Fukushima, Tadamasa ^a   Usami, Ron ^a   Kamekura, Masahiro ^b  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Halophiles Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; NICHE; POND; SALINE LAKE; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SALT WATER; SURVIVAL;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; ISHIKAWA; JAPAN; NOTO PENINSULA;

HALOARCULA; HALOARCULA JAPONICA; HALOBACTERIA; HALOCOCCUS; HALOGEOMETRICUM; NATRIALBA ASIATICA;

EID: 34250833793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1448-3-2     Document Type: Article

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