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Aquisalibacillus elongatus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium of the family Bacillaceae isolated from a saline lake.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Aug 2008
Márquez M C, Carrasco I J, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan D A, Jones B E, Grant W D, Ventosa A
Abstract excerpt
A novel moderately halophilic, non-motile, rod-shaped bacterium was isolated from a saline lake, Lake Shangmatala, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. This bacterium, designated SH4sT, was strictly aerobic, catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. It grew at salinities of 3-20 % (w/v) NaCl, with an optimum at 10 % (w/v) NaCl. The cell-wall peptidoglycan was of the A4beta type, based on l-Orn-d-Asp, and...
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