Unusual micro-organisms from unusual habitats: Hypersaline environments

Prokaryotic Diversity: Mechanisms and Significance: Published for the Society for General Microbiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 223-254

  Ventosa, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

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