| molecular and culture dependent characterization of endolithic bacteria in two beach sand samples and description of rhizobium endolithicum sp. nov. | endolithic metagenome analysis of two beach samples collected form chilika, odisha, india indicated rich bacterial diversity. while the metagenome analysis of sample one yielded 16s rrna gene sequences which represent six phyla and 16 genera, sample two yielded very rich diversity representing 17 phyla and 286 genera. six species of bacteria were isolated from the endolithic enrichments and most of them have 16s rrna gene sequence similarity of >99 % with known taxa, except for strain jc140(t) h ... | 2013 | 24104485 |