Susana Benlloch, Arantxa López-López, Emilio O Casamayor, Lise Øvreås, Victoria Goddard, Frida Lise Daae, Gary Smerdon, Ramón Massana, Ian Joint, Frede Thingstad, Carlos Pedrós-Alió, Francisco Rodríguez-Valera
Bacterial and archaeal assemblages have been studied in a multipond solar saltern using a range of microbial ecology techniques by four laboratories simultaneously. These include 16S rDNA sequencing from both denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and clone libraries, and culturing methods. Water samples from eight ponds were analysed, covering a salinity range from near sea water (4% salt) to saturated sodium chloride (37% salt; ponds called crystallizers). Clone libraries focused on ponds with salinity of 8%, 22% and 32%...
June 2002: Environmental Microbiology