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Microbial community of salt crystals processed from Mediterranean seawater based on 16S rRNA analysis.
Canadian journal of microbiology - 1 Jan 2010
Baati Houda, Guermazi Sonda, Gharsallah Neji, Sghir Abdelghani, Ammar Emna
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA was used to investigate for the first time the structure of the microbial community that inhabits salt crystals retrieved from the bottom of a solar saltern, located in the coastal area of the Mediterranean Sea (Sfax, Tunisia). This community lives in an extremely salty environment of 250-310 g/L total dissolved salt. A total of 78 bacterial 16S rRNA clone sequences making up to...
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