Halophilic archaea cultivated from surface sterilized middle-late Eocene rock salt are polyploid

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Jaakkola, Salla T ^a   Zerulla, Karolin ^b   Guo, Qinggong ^c   Liu, Ying ^c   Ma, Hongling ^d   Yang, Chunhe ^d   Bamford, Dennis H ^a   Chen, Xiangdong ^c   Soppa, Jörg ^b   Oksanen, Hanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ARCHAEAL DNA; INORGANIC SALT;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; EOCENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOBACTERIUM; HALOLAMINA; HALOPHILIC ARCHAEON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYPLOIDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HALOBACTERIALES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALOBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALTS;

EID: 84908302204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110533     Document Type: Article

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