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The Genus Deleya

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The Prokaryotes

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The genus Deleya, along with the genus Halomonas, comprises the family Halomonadaceae (Franzmann et al., 1988). This family encompasses various halotolerant and moderately halophilic rod-like Gram-negative nonfermentative, chemoorganotrophs that require 75 mM to 200 mM NaC1 for growth. However, some Deleya strains grow optimally only in media containing at least 7.5% salts (1.3 M NaC1). “Salt-loving” is a universal feature of all strains belonging to the genera Deleya and Halomonas, and Deleya strains have been isolated from marine environments, solar salterns, saline soils, and salted food.

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  1. Emory University, 105 Bay Colt Road, 30201, Alpharetta, GA, USA

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  3. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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Kersters, K. (1992). The Genus Deleya . In: Balows, A., Trüper, H.G., Dworkin, M., Harder, W., Schleifer, KH. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2191-1_6

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