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Aerobic endospore-forming bacteria from geothermal environments in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, and Candlemas Island, South Sandwich archipelago, with the proposal of Bacillus fumarioli sp. nov.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Sept 2000
Logan N A, Lebbe L, Hoste B, Goris J, Forsyth G, Heyndrickx M, Murray B L, Syme N, Wynn-Williams D D, De Vos P
Abstract excerpt
Aerobic endospore-forming bacteria were isolated from soils taken from active fumaroles on Mount Rittmann and Mount Melbourne in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, and from active and inactive fumaroles on Candlemas Island, South Sandwich archipelago. The Mt Rittmann and Mt Melbourne soils yielded a dominant, moderately thermophilic and acidophilic, aerobic endospore-former growing at pH 5.5 and 50 degrees C,...
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