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Very similar strains of Halococcus salifodinae are found in geographically separated permo-triassic salt deposits.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Dec 1999
Stan-Lotter Helga, McGenity Terry J, Legat Andrea, Denner Ewald B M, Glaser Kurt, Stetter Karl O, Wanner Gerhard
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The authors have previously isolated a novel extremely halophilic archaeon, Halococcus salifodinae Blp, from Austrian rock salt deposited about 250 million years ago. In this study they compared strain Blp with two other halococci isolated independently from geographically distant salt deposits of similar age, and with two recent isolates (N1 and H2) from the same site as strain Blp. Strain BG2/2 was from a salt...
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