- Source: Halococcus salifodinae
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).
References
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. 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
LPSN
"Halococcus salifodinae". The Encyclopedia of Life.
Type strain of Halococcus salifodinae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase