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Isolation of Bacillus thuringiensis from Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Letters in applied microbiology - 1 Mar 2000
Forsyth G, Logan N A
Abstract excerpt
Sixty-two samples of Antarctic soils, mosses, penguin guano, algae and lichens were examined for the presence of aerobic endospore-forming bacteria; 36 samples (58%) yielded such organisms, and two samples from Edmonson Point (74 degrees 21'S 165 degrees 08'E) and one sample from Apostrophe Island (73 degrees 32'S 167 degrees 24'E), northern Victoria Land, yielded strains of Bacillus thuringiensis. Further...
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