Explore: Halophilic Microorganisms

updated. Halophilic archaea are generally referred to as haloarchaea to distinguish them from halophilic bacteria. These halophilic microorganisms require

hdl:10316/8134. PMID 12220406. Oren A (January 2002). "Diversity of halophilic microorganisms: environments, phylogeny, physiology, and applications". Journal

surface of the lake is also often coloured red or pink by the halophilic microorganisms that live there. Salt marshes and freshwater wetlands around the

concentrations in halophilic microorganisms and confers resistance towards salt and temperature stress. Ectoine was first identified in the microorganism Ectothiorhodospira

hypersaline waters that usually contain high concentrations of halophilic microorganisms, primarily haloarchaea but also other halophiles including algae

and characterized a type of bacteria capable of growing in salty water (halophilic), that thrives in the cold (psychrophile), and is heterotrophic, which

"Chapter 3 - Solar salterns as model systems for the study of halophilic microorganisms in their natural environments", Model Ecosystems in Extreme Environments

Evolution that concludes that while the salt plains are teeming with halophilic microorganisms, there is no life in Dallol's multi-extreme ponds due to the combination

as Halobacterium cutirubrum or Halobacterium halobium, is an extremely halophilic marine obligate aerobic archaeon. Despite its name, this is not a bacterium

of Archaea in the genus Haloquadratum, known for its square shape and halophilic nature. First discovered in a brine pool in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt