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Rhodovulum steppense sp. nov., an obligately haloalkaliphilic purple nonsulfur bacterium widespread in saline soda lakes of Central Asia.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 May 2010
Kompantseva Elena I, Komova Anastasia V, Kostrikina Nadezhda A
Abstract excerpt
Seven strains of purple nonsulfur bacteria isolated from the shallow-water steppe soda lakes of the cryoarid zone of Central Asia formed a genetically homogeneous group within the genus Rhodovulum. The isolates were most closely related to Rhodovulum strictum, from which they differed at the species level (99.5 % 16S rRNA gene identity and 42-44 % DNA-DNA hybridization level). According to genotypic and...
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