Table 3.
(Halo)natronarchaeal cellulotrophic strains isolated from hypersaline lakes.
| Strain | Source | Cellulose type in the enrichment | Morphology |
Chitin as growth substrate | Affiliation | Collection No. in UNIQEM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colony | Cells | ||||||
| Haloarchaea | |||||||
| HArcel1 | Mixed sample, Kulunda Steppe (three salt lakes) | Amorphous | Orange, semisolid | Large irregular flat cocci | - | Putative new genus 3 | U975 |
| HArce12 | Avicel | Red, semisolid | Small irregular flat cocci | - | Halosimplex carlsbadense | ||
| HArcel3 | Sigma 20 μm | Pink, solid | Irregular small flat cocci and rods | - | Halomicrobium zhouii | ||
| Natronoarchae | |||||||
| AArcel1 | Bitter-1 (Kulunda Steppe) | Amorphous | Large, red, semisolid | Mostly large coccoids | - | Natronolimnobius baerhuensis | U970 |
| AArcel2 | Small, pink, solid | Mostly flat motile rods | + | Putative new genus 4 | U971 U972 |
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| AArcel4 | Mixed sample (Kulunda Steppe) | Avicel | + | ||||
| AArcel5 | Sigma 20 μm | + | |||||
| AArcel9 | Filter paper | - | |||||
| AArcel6 | Lakes Hotontyn/Shar-Burdiin (Mongolia) | Amorphous | - | ||||
| AArcel7 | Mixed sample (Wadi al Natrun) | Flat, pink, soft | + | Putative new genus 5 | U973 | ||
| AArcel8-1 | Owens Lake (California) | Large, red, semisolid | |||||
| AArcel8-2 | Small, pink, solid | Mostly large cocci | - | Natronolimnobius baerhuensis | |||