| arcobacter halophilus sp. nov., the first obligate halophile in the genus arcobacter. | a gram-negative bacterium, designated la31b(t), was isolated from water collected from a hypersaline lagoon on laysan atoll in the north-western hawaiian islands. single cells of la31b(t) were slightly curved but became helical as their length increased. preliminary characterization based on 16s rrna gene sequence analysis showed that la31b(t) shared 96.0 % identity with an arcobacter sp. isolated from a cyanobacterial mat in hypersaline lake sinai, and 94 % identity with arcobacter nitrofigilis ... | 2005 | 15879267 |