Extremely halophilic microbial communities in anaerobic sediments from a solar saltern

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 258-271

  López López, Arantxa ^a   Yarza, Pablo ^a   Richter, Michael ^a   Suárez Suárez, Ana ^a   Antón, Josefa ^b   Niemann, Helge ^c,d   Rosselló Móra, Ramón ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 78649699808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00108.x     Document Type: Article

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