| fictibacillus halophilus sp. nov., from a microbial mat of a hot spring atop the himalayan range. | a gram-stain-positive staining, motile, endospore forming and moderately halophilic bacterium, designated as strain as8t, was isolated from a microbial mat deposited at thermal discharges of manikaran hot spring (with surface water temperature ~95 °c) located in himachal pradesh, india. 16s rrna gene sequence based phylogenetic analysis revealed that strain as8t belonged to the genus fictibacillus with the highest sequence similarity to fictibacillus nanhaiensis dsm 23009t (99.9 %) and fictibaci ... | 2016 | 27031366 |