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Arthrobacter, Brachybacterium and Planococcus isolates identified from antarctic sea ice brine. Description of Planococcus mcmeekinii, sp. nov.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 Jun 1998
Junge K, Gosink J J, Hoppe H G, Staley J T
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Three facultative psychrophilic Gram-positive bacterial strains were isolated from brine samples from the sea ice community in Antarctica. All strains were coccoid to rod-shaped and exhibited broad salinity and temperature ranges for growth. The three strains were subjected to 16S rDNA sequencing and subsequent phylogenetic analysis. All possess unique 16S rDNA sequences indicating they are new, previously...
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