title: A simple method to isolate salt-tolerant myxobacteria from marine samples.
abstract: This paper describes a simple method for the isolation of salt-tolerant myxobacteria from marine conditions. As the results show in this paper, salt-tolerant myxobacteria are found to be able to grow, but unable to form fruiting bodies at high salt concentrations. The fruiting body structures of the salt-tolerant strains were all formed in conditions with lower seawater content, i.e. lower than 60% seawater (about 2.0% salt content) or distilled water supplemented with MgCl(2). The method picked up the fruiting bodies for isolation.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, College of Life Science, Shandong University, 250100, Jinan, China. lilab@sdu.edu.cn
authors: Yue Zhong
authors: YZ
authors: Li
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Hu
authors: Yu Qing
authors: YQ
authors: Zhang
authors: Zhi jun
authors: Zj
authors: Qiu
authors: Yong
authors: Y
authors: Zhang
authors: Bin Hui
authors: BH
authors: Wu
mesh_terms: D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D003470:Culture Media; D020564:Deltaproteobacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000382:microbiology; D012623:Seawater / Q000382:microbiology*; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D012822:Silicon Dioxide