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Diversity of actinomycetes isolated from Challenger Deep sediment (10,898 m) from the Mariana Trench.
Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions - 1 Jun 2006
Pathom-Aree Wasu, Stach James E M, Ward Alan C, Horikoshi Koki, Bull Alan T, Goodfellow Michael
Abstract excerpt
Thirty-eight actinomycetes were isolated from sediment collected from the Mariana Trench (10,898 m) using marine agar and media selective for actinomycetes, notably raffinose-histidine agar. The isolates were assigned to the class Actinobacteria using primers specific for members of this taxon. The phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed that the isolates belonged to the genera Dermacoccus,...
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