Article
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
Abstract excerpt
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...
Topics
- Actinomycetales
- Antarctic Regions
- Arthrobacter
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Fatty Acids
- Ice
- Micrococcaceae
- Microscopy, Phase-Contrast
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Bacterial
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Seawater
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid