title: Intraspecific comparative analysis of the species Salinibacter ruber.
abstract: Salinibacter ruber is the first extremely halophilic member of the Bacteria domain of proven environmental relevance in hypersaline brines at or approaching NaCl saturation, that has been brought to pure culture. A collection of 17 strains isolated from five different geographical locations (Mallorca, Alicante, Ebro Delta, Canary Islands, and Peruvian Andes) were studied following the currently accepted taxonomic approach. Additionally, random amplification of genomic DNA led to the phenetic analysis of the intraspecific diversity. Altogether the taxonomic study indicated that S. ruber remained highly homogeneous beyond any geographical barrier. However, genomic fingerprints indicated that populations from different isolation sites could still be discriminated.
authors.affiliation: División de Microbiología, Departamento de Fisiología, Genética y Microbiología, Universidad de Alicante, Apto. 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: Arantxa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peña
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valens
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buczolits
authors.forename: Josefa
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Antón
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kämpfer
authors.forename: Hans-Jürgen
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Busse
authors.forename: Rudolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Amann
authors.forename: Ramon
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rosselló-Mora
mesh_terms: D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D005821:Genetic Techniques; D016678:Genome; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000737:chemistry; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology; D013045:Species Specificity; D045249:Sphingobacterium / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D004247:DNA