| diversity of culturable halophilic archaea isolated from rambla salada, murcia (spain). | we have studied the diversity of culturable halophilic archaea at rambla salada, murcia (south-eastern spain). we made 8 samplings at different places in this habitat during the years 2006 and 2007 and isolated a total of 49 strains, which were identified by means of phenotypic tests and the hypervariable v1-v3 region of the 16s rrna gene sequences (around 500 bp). the ribosomal data showed that the isolates belonged to 12 genera within the halobacteriaceae family, with haloferax and natrinema b ... | 2012 | 22219037 |