The contribution of halophilic Bacteria
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Aharon Oren; Francı́sco Rodrı́guez-Valera
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Analysis of the pigments extracted from solar saltern crystallizer ponds in Santa Pola near Alicante and on the Balearic island of Mallorca, Spain, showed that 5^7.5% of the total prokaryotic pigment absorbance could be attributed to a novel carotenoid or carotenoidlike compound. This unidentified p