A new lineage of halophilic, wall-less, contractile bacteria from a brine-filled deep of the Red Sea

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3580-3587

  Antunes, André ^a   Rainey, Fred A ^b   Wanner, Gerhard ^c   Taborda, Marco ^c   Pätzold, Jürgen ^d   Nobre, M Fernanda ^d   Da Costa, Milton S ^a,e   Huber, Robert ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^f Kommunale Berufsfachschule für Biologisch Technische Assistenten   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID; LACTIC ACID; MENATETRENONE; NITRATE; NITRITE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SATURATED FATTY ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; SEA WATER;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FERMENTATION; FIRMICUTES; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; TAXACEAE; TEMPERATURE; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL; ARTEMIA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA; FIRMICUTES; MOLLICUTES;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

EID: 47049090684     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01860-07     Document Type: Article

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