| haloferax elongans sp. nov. and haloferax mucosum sp. nov., isolated from microbial mats from hamelin pool, shark bay, australia. | extremely halophilic archaea were cultivated from smooth and pustular microbial mats collected from hamelin pool, shark bay, western australia. on the basis of morphology, two phenotypes were present and 16s rrna gene sequence analysis indicated that all strains were most closely related to members of the genus haloferax (98.1-99.4 % similarity). one representative strain from each phenotype was selected for further taxonomic characterization. strain sa5t, isolated from the smooth mat, formed sm ... | 2008 | 18398172 |