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Bacillus natronophilus sp. nov., an alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from a soda lake

Rodolfo Javier Menes1, Eliana Valentina Machin, Andrés Iriarte2

  • 1Laboratorio de Ecología Microbiana Medioambiental, Facultad de Química y Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
|October 16, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
Bacillus natronophilus sp. novBacillus spalkaliphilemoderately halophilicsoda lake

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