Date of Award:
5-1974
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Biology
Department name when degree awarded
Bacteriology and Public Health
Committee Chair(s)
Frederick J. Post
Committee
Frederick J. Post
Committee
Paul B. Carter
Committee
Raymond I. Lynn
Abstract
Thirteen bacterial cultures were isolated from the North arm of Great Salt Lake during the months of January and February of 1973. Eleven isolates were gram-negative pleomorphic rods which lysed in hypotonic solution. The remaining two were gram-positive cocci. All isolates and one known strain of Halobacterium salinarium were subjected to examination of morphological, cultural, physiological, and biochemical characteristics. A numerical taxonomic analysis was applied to the compiled characters to compute a coefficient of similarity for each individual isolate as compared to all other isolates. A comparative analysis was included in the similarity computation using characters assembled from those reported in the literature for six taxonomically accepted species of halophilic bacteria. The lake isolates proved to be extreme halophiles with relative high levels of similarity between each other and the known bacteria included in the numerical analysis.
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Recommended Citation
Crane, John L. Jr., "Characterization of Selected Bacteria from the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake" (1974). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 1665.
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