The dying Dead Sea: The microbiology of an increasingly extreme environment

Lakes and Reservoirs: Science, Policy and Management for Sustainable Use

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-222

  Oren, Aharon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Archaea; Dead Sea; Dunaliella; Environmental genomics; Halobacteriaceae; Hypersaline

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DILUTION; GENOMICS; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE WATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; WATER BUDGET; WATER COLUMN;

DEAD SEA;

ARCHAEA; CHLOROPHYTA; DUNALIELLA; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; HALOBACTERIACEAE; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOBACULUM GOMORRENSE; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HALORHABDUS; HALORUBRUM; HALORUBRUM SODOMENSE; NATRONOMONAS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77958084797     PISSN: 13205331     EISSN: 14401770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1770.2010.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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