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Haloarcula quadrata sp. nov., a square, motile archaeon isolated from a brine pool in Sinai (Egypt).
International journal of systematic bacteriology - 1 Jul 1999
Oren A, Ventosa A, Gutiérrez M C, Kamekura M
Abstract excerpt
The motile, predominantly square-shaped, red archaeon strain 801030/1T, isolated from a brine pool in the Sinai peninsula (Egypt), was characterized taxonomically. On the basis of its polar lipid composition, the nucleotide sequences of its two 16S rRNA genes, the DNA G+C content (60.1 mol%) and its growth characteristics, the isolate could be assigned to the genus Haloarcula. However, phylogenetic analysis of...
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