| archaeal diversity at the great salt plains of oklahoma described by cultivation and molecular analyses. | the great salt plains of oklahoma is a natural inland terrestrial hypersaline environment that forms evaporite crusts of mainly nacl. previous work described the bacterial community through the characterization of 105 isolates from 46 phylotypes. the current report describes the archaeal community through both microbial isolation and culture-independent techniques. nineteen distinct archaea were isolated, and ten were characterized phenetically. included were isolates phylogenetically related to ... | 2009 | 19306116 |