When it comes to the investigation of key ecosystems in the world, we often omit salt from the
ecological recipe. In fact, despite occupying almost half of the volume of inland waters and …

Over geologic time, the water in the Bonneville basin has risen and fallen, most dramatically
as freshwater Lake Bonneville lost enormous volume 15,000–13,000 years ago and …

Halite endoliths in the Atacama Desert represent one of the most extreme ecosystems on
Earth. Cultivation‐independent methods were used to examine the functional adaptations of …

The soda lake environment presents microorganisms with many combinations of physical
and chemical extremes, amongst them extremes of alkaline pH, salinity (NaCl), temperature …

Background Metaviriomes, the viral genomes present in an environment, have been studied
by direct sequencing of the viral DNA or by cloning in small insert libraries. The short reads …

Viruses are the most abundant living things and a source of genetic variation. Despite recent
research, we know little about their biodiversity and geographic distribution. We used …

Viruses play vital biogeochemical and ecological roles by (a) expressing auxiliary metabolic
genes during infection,(b) enhancing the lateral transfer of host genes, and (c) inducing host …

The brines of natural salt lakes with total salt concentrations exceeding 30% are often
colored red by dense communities of halophilic microorganisms. Such red brines are found …

Seasonal sampling was carried out at three Argentinian salterns, Salitral Negro (SN),
Colorada Grande (CG) and Guatraché (G), to analyze abiotic parameters and microbial …

We employed a temporal sampling approach to understand how the microbial diversity may
shift in the north arm of Great Salt Lake, Utah, US To determine how variations in seasonal …