Great Salt Lake (GSL) is home to halophiles, salt-tolerant Bacteria and Archaea, which live
at 2-5M NaCl. In addition to salt tolerance, GSL halophiles exhibit resistance to both …

Earth may provide insights helpful in our search for life elsewhere in the universe.• A
common characteristic among halophiles is that they contain a preponderance of acidic …

Many microorganisms are adapted to life at high-salt concentrations. Halophilic
representatives are found in each of the three domains of life: Archaea, Bacteria, and …

Large regions of Earth's surface are underlain by salt deposits that evaporated from ancient
oceans and are populated by extreme halophilic microbes. Some of these halophiles may …

Concentrated salt solutions like salt or soda lakes, coastal lagoons or man-made salterns,
inhabited by only a few forms of higher life, are dominated by prokaryotic microorganisms …

Seen from the air, the irregular grid of evaporation ponds at the south end of San Francisco
Bay in California is a kaleidoscopic quilt of reds and purples. These ponds take their colors …

" This water" he told me," runs out to the eastern region, and flows into the Arabah; and when
it comes into the sea, into the sea of foul waters [ie, the Dead Sea], the water will become …

Summary The Salar Grande in the Coastal Range of Northern Chile is a fossil evaporitic
basin filled with almost pure halite (95% NaCl average). It is assumed that the basin has not …

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation responses of extremophilic and archaeal microorganisms are of
interest from evolutionary, physiological, and astrobiological perspectives. Previous studies …

Fluid inclusions in modern and ancient buried halite from Death Valley and Saline Valley,
California, USA, contain an ecosystem of “salt-loving”(halophilic) prokaryotes and …