Diversity of Bacillus-like organisms isolated from deep-sea hypersaline anoxic sediments

Saline Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Sass, Andrea M ^a,b   McKew, Boyd A ^a   Sass, Henrik ^c   Fichtel, Jörg ^d   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a,e,f   McGenity, Terry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; FERMENTATION; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SALINE LAKE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

PONTIBACILLUS; URANIA;

EID: 47649112426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1448-4-8     Document Type: Article

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