Table 1.
Total number of bacterial strains isolated from various environments cultivated at different temperatures.
| Strain origin | Growth temperature (°C) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 25 | 35 | 45 | >50 | Total | |
| Mid-Atlantic Ridge sea sedimenta | 59 | 40 | 30 | 23 | 2 | 154 |
| Seaweedsb | 11 | 48 | 32 | 5 | - | 96 |
| North Sea coastal waters and sediments | 9 | 53 | 1 | – | – | 63 |
| North Sea aggregates (MGP) | – | 20 | – | – | – | 20 |
| Biofilm from the Sea of Omanc | – | 12 | – | – | – | 12 |
| Total | 79 | 173 | 63 | 28 | 2 | 345 |
aSea sediment obtained from the depth of around 2400–2750 m. bFucus vesiculosus and Palmaria palmate. cRocks of intertidal zone.