Water bodies on Mars and the icy moons of the outer solar system are now recognized as
likely being associated with high levels of salt. Therefore, the study of high salinity …

Several viable halophilic archaebacteria were isolated previously from rock salt of Permo-
Triassic age in an Austrian salt mine; one of these strains was the first to be recognized as a …

This opinion paper describes the potential (yet underutilized) use of a transcriptomic tool,
RNA-seq, to study the cellular responses and adaptations of halophilic microbes to extreme …

Halophilic Archaea are known to tolerate multiple extreme conditions on Earth and have
been proposed as models for astrobiology. In order to assess the importance of cold …

The class Halobacteria is one of the most diverse groups within the Euryarchaeota phylum,
whose members are ubiquitously distributed in hypersaline environments, where they often …

Abstract Mars, Enceladus, and Europa are said to have hypersaline environments, which
makes a strong case for the studying the exobiological or astrobiological aspects of …

Microbial communities thriving in hypersaline brines of solar salterns are highly resistant
and resilient to environmental changes, and salinity is a major factor that deterministically …

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 …

ABSTRACT Deep Lake in the Vestfold Hills is hypersaline and the coldest system in
Antarctica known to support microbial growth (temperatures as low as− 20° C). It represents …

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 …