Living with salt: Metabolic and phylogenetic diversity of archaea inhabiting saline ecosystems

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 330, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Andrei, Adrian Ştefan ^a   Banciu, Horia Leonard ^a   Oren, Aharon ^b  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Haloarchaeal heterotrophy; Halophilic archaea; Hypersaline systems; Methanogenesis

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM; CARBON SOURCE; EURYARCHAEOTA; HALOBACTERIALES; HETEROTROPHY; METHANOGENESIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NANOHALOARCHAEA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOHETEROTROPH; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCHAEA; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; SALINITY; SALTS;

ARCHAEA; EURYARCHAEOTA; HALOBACTERIA;

EID: 84859430137     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02526.x     Document Type: Review

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