Isolation and initial characterization of the tellurite reducing moderately halophilic bacterium, Salinicoccus sp. strain QW6

Microbiological Research

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 456-465

  Amoozegar, Mohammad Ali ^a   Ashengroph, Morahem ^a   Malekzadeh, Feridon ^a   Reza Razavi, Mohamad ^b   Naddaf, Saied ^b   Kabiri, Mahboubeh ^a  

^a University College of Science   (Iran)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Moderate halophiles; Salinicoccus; Tellurite reduction; Tellurite removal

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

CULTURE MEDIUM; HALOPHILIC BACTERIA; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; HIGH CAPACITY (TRANSMISSION DATA RATE); OXYANIONS; SALTY ENVIRONMENTS; WIDE-RANGE;

STRAIN;

BACTERIUM; ISOLATED POPULATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TELLURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; SALINICOCCUS;

EID: 44849109606     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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