Halococcus salifodinae
| Halococcus salifodinae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
| Phylum: | Euryarchaeota |
| Class: | Halobacteria |
| Order: | Halobacteriales |
| Family: | Halobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Halococcus |
| Species: | H. salifodinae |
| Binomial name | |
| Halococcus salifodinae Denner et al. 1994 | |
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]
References
- ↑ 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. ISSN 0020-7713.
Further reading
- 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.
- 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.
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