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SUBMITTER: Mancinelli RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3182535 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mancinelli Rocco L RL Landheim Ragnhild R Sánchez-Porro Cristina C Dornmayr-Pfaffenhuemer Marion M Gruber Claudia C Legat Andrea A Ventosa Antonio A Radax Christian C Ihara Kunio K White Melisa R MR Stan-Lotter Helga H
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 20090630 Pt 8
Three halophilic isolates, strains Halo-G*T, AUS-1 and Naxos II, were compared. Halo-G* was isolated from an evaporitic salt crystal from Baja California, Mexico, whereas AUS-1 and Naxos II were isolated from salt pools in Western Australia and the Greek island of Naxos, respectively. Halo-G*T had been exposed previously to conditions of outer space and survived 2 weeks on the Biopan facility. Chemotaxonomic and molecular comparisons suggested high similarity between the three strains. Phylogene ...[more]