Diversity of Haloquadratum and other haloarchaea in three, geographically distant, Australian saltern crystallizer ponds

Extremophiles

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-169

  Oh, Dickson ^a   Porter, Kate ^b   Russ, Brendan ^c   Burns, David ^a   Dyall Smith, Mike ^d  

^a Biota Holdings Ltd ^*  (Australia)

^b Biota Holdings Ltd   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; Biodiversity; Cultivation; Halobacteria; Halobacteriaceae; Hypersaline

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL RNA; FRESH WATER; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HALOBACTERIUM; HALORUBRUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SALINITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; FRESH WATER; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HALOBACTERIACEAE; HALORUBRUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; HALOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIACEAE; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOQUADRATUM WALSBYI; HALORUBRUM; OTUS;

EID: 77951769203     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-009-0295-6     Document Type: Article

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