Halophilic bacteria: Potentials and applications in biotechnology

Halophiles: Biodiversity and Sustainable Exploitation

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 277-321

  Mohammadipanah, Fatemeh ^a   Hamedi, Javad ^a   Dehhaghi, Mona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biotechnological application; Ecology; Halophilic bacteria; Physiology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955098063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14595-2_11     Document Type: Chapter

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