Halococcus salifodinae is an extremely halophilic archaeon, first isolated in an Austrian salt mine. It is a coccoid cell with pink pigmentation, its type strain being Blp (= ATCC 51437 = DSM 8989).[1]
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| Halococcus salifodinae Denner et al. 1994
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References
edit- ^ Denner, E. B. M.; McGENITY, T. J.; Busse, H.-J.; Grant, W. D.; Wanner, G.; Stan-Lotter, H. (1994). "Halococcus salifodinae sp. nov., an Archaeal Isolate from an Austrian Salt Mine". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 44 (4): 774–780. doi:10.1099/00207713-44-4-774. hdl:2060/19980002915. ISSN 0020-7713.
Further reading
edit- Srivastava, Pallavee; Bragança, Judith; Ramanan, Sutapa Roy; Kowshik, Meenal (2013). "Synthesis of silver nanoparticles using haloarchaeal isolate Halococcus salifodinae BK3". Extremophiles. 17 (5): 821–831. doi:10.1007/s00792-013-0563-3. ISSN 1431-0651. PMID 23884709. S2CID 254082949.
- Hanslmeier, Arnold, Stephan Kempe, and Joseph Seckbach, eds. Life on Earth and Other Planetary Bodies. Vol. 24. Springer, 2012.
- Gunde-Cimerman, Nina, Aharon Oren, and Ana Plemenitaš, eds. Adaptation to life at high salt concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. Vol. 9. Springer, 2006.
External links
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- "Halococcus salifodinae" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- Type strain of Halococcus salifodinae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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