Table 1.
Haloarchaeal chitinotrophic strains isolated from hypersaline lakes with neutral pH.
| Strain | Source | Morphology |
Affiliation | Collection No. in UNIQEMb | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colonies | Cells | ||||
| HArcht1-1 | Cock salt lake, (S)a | Orange-red, semisolid | Motile flat irregular rods and cocci | Halomicrobium mukohataei | U963 |
| HArcht1-2 | Cock salt lake, (B)a | Red, solid | Free cells are motile flat rods, cells aggregated with chitin are irregular flat coccoids | ||
| HArcht3-1 | Hummocky salt lake (S) | Red, semisolid | Motile flat rods | U964 | |
| HArcht3-2 | Lomovoe salt lake (S) | Red, soft | Motile flat rods | ||
| HArcht3-3 | Lomovoe salt lake (B) | Red, semisolid | Motile flat rods | ||
| HArcht2 | Cock salt lake, (S) | Pink, flat, skinny | Flat irregular cocci and rods | Haloterrigena longa | U965 |
| HArcht-Mg | Barun Davst Nur (S+B) | ||||
| HArcht-Cr | Crimean salt lakes (S+B) | Red, soft | Motile flat rods | Halomicrobium mukohataei | |
| HArcht-Bsk | Lake Baskunchak (S+B) | Pale pink, soft | Motile flat rods | Salinarchaeum laminarum | U976 |
| HArcht-Ma | Laguna de Fuente de Piedra (S+B) | ||||
a(S), sediments; (B), brines.
bCulture Collection of Unique and Extremophilic Microorganisms (Moscow).