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Microbial Diversity of Great Salt Lake

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Book cover Adaptation to Life at High Salt Concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya

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  1. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT, 84105, USA

    Bonnie K. Baxter

  2. George Mason University, Manassas, VA, 20110, USA

    Carol D. Litchfield

  3. University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA

    Kevin Sowers, Priya Arora Dassarma & Shiladitya Dassarma

  4. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    Jack D. Griffith

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Baxter, B.K., Litchfield, C.D., Sowers, K., Griffith, J.D., Dassarma, P.A., Dassarma, S. (2005). Microbial Diversity of Great Salt Lake. In: Gunde-Cimerman, N., Oren, A., Plemenitaš, A. (eds) Adaptation to Life at High Salt Concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3633-7_2

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