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Halogranum salarium sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon isolated from sea salt.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 Dec 2011
Kim Kwang Kyu, Lee Keun Chul, Lee Jung-Sook
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Three halophilic archaea, strains B-1(T), B-3 and B-4, were isolated from evaporitic salt crystals from Namhae, Korea. Cells of the strains were Gram-stain-negative, motile and pleomorphic, and colonies were red-pigmented. The three isolates had identical 16S rRNA gene sequences and formed a tight phylogenetic clade with Halogranum rubrum RO2-11(T) in the genus Halogranum, showing 99.5% sequence similarity. The...
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