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Natrinema versiforme sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from Aibi salt lake, Xinjiang, China.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 May 2000
Xin H, Itoh T, Zhou P, Suzuki K, Kamekura M, Nakase T
Abstract excerpt
A novel extremely halophilic archaeon, strain XF10T, was isolated from a salt lake in China. This organism was neutrophilic, non-motile and pleomorphic, and was rod, coccus or irregularly shaped. It required at least 1.5 M NaCl for growth and grew in a wide range of MgCl2 concentrations (0.005-0.5 M). Lipid extract of whole cells contained two glycolipids with the same chromatographic properties as two...
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