Natural Science Forum / Biology / Microbiology / August 2008

A Mars particle scanned by an atomic force microscope on board
Phoenix
is nearly identical to an Earthly microbe species in size, shape and
color. The Earthly species is halomonas campisalis of the halophile

I have planned to carry out characterization of genes involved in
alkalophilic nature of thermoalkalophilic Bacillus sp.
Somebody can suggest me some of the methodology involved in PCR
amplification of the genes or preliminary experiments required to

I am writting to ask about what concentrations you have found to be
effective when selecting for transformants of Non tuberculous
mycobacteria such as M.avium,abscessus and chelonae.
Currently we have been using 50 and 100 ucl/ml but we keep getting

can you please tell me how to make bacterial culture in tub.
actually, i will have to raise 5ltr of bacterial culture mass
inoculum (Nutrient Broth)  in a tub for field application.
so, if you have any idea about this