Combined use of cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent methods indicates that members of most haloarchaeal groups in an Australian crystallizer pond are cultivable

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 5258-5265

  Burns, D G ^a   Camakaris, H M ^a   Janssen, P H ^a   Dyall Smith, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GENES; LAKES; MICROORGANISMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; SALINE WATER;

HALOARCHEA; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENTS; HYPERSALINE WATERS; MICROBIAL FLORA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

RIBOSOME RNA; WATER;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COLONY FORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LIBRARY; HALOARCHAEBACTERIUM; HALOFERAX; HALORUBRUM; INCUBATION TIME; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROFLORA; NATRONOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES CULTIVATION;

ARCHAEA; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FRESH WATER; HALOBACTERIACEAE; HALOFERAX; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARCHAEA; HALOBACTERIACEAE; HALOFERAX; HALORUBRUM; NATRONOBACTERIUM; NATRONOMONAS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4444305820     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.9.5258-5265.2004     Document Type: Article

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