Solid Medium for Culturing Black Smoker Bacteria at Temperatures to 120°C
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 51 (2) , 238-243
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.51.2.238-243.1986
Abstract
A solid, highly thermostable medium, based on the new gelling agent GELRITE, was devised to facilitate the culturing of extremely thermophilic microorganisms from submarine hydrothermal vents. The medium remained solid at temperatures to 120°C at vapor pressures and hydrostatic pressures to 265 atm. It proved useful to its maximum tested limits in isolating colonies of black smoker bacteria from hydrothermal fluids recently collected at the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. ImagesThis publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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