Life at high salt concentrations

The Prokaryotes: Prokaryotic Communities and Ecophysiology

Volumn 9783642301230, Issue , 2013, Pages 421-440

  Oren, Aharon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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