Life at extreme limits: The anaerobic halophilic alkalithermophiles

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1125, Issue , 2008, Pages 44-57

  Mesbah, Noha M ^a,b   Wiegel, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b 211 Biological Sciences Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alkalithermophile; Anaerobe; Extremophile; Halophile

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; CATION; OXYGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; ADAPTATION; ALKALINITY; ALKALITHERMOPHILE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOENERGY; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL WALL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; GENOMICS; GROWTH CURVE; HABITAT; HALOPHILIC ARCHAEON; LAKE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEOMICS; SALINITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPHILE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALONATRONUM SACCHAROPHILUM;

EID: 41349118342     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1419.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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