A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa,
survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity …

Background Soil salinization threatens food security and ecosystem health, and is one of the
important drivers to the degradation of many ecosystems around the world. Soil …

Intensive exploitation, poor recycling, low repeatable use, and unusual resistance of plastics
to environmental and microbiological action result in accumulation of huge waste amounts …

Bacteroidetes are prevalent in soil ecosystems and are associated with various eukaryotic
hosts, including plants, animals, and humans. The ubiquity and diversity of Bacteroidetes …

Fluctuations in environmental osmolarity are ubiquitous stress factors in many natural
habitats of microorganisms, as they inevitably trigger osmotically instigated fluxes of water …

The organisms thriving under extreme conditions better than any other organism living on
Earth, fascinate by their hostile growing parameters, physiological features, and their …

Sulfur (S) is a crucial component in the environment and living organisms. This work is the
first attempt to provide an overview and critical discussion on the roles, mechanisms, and …

The unique cellular enzymatic machinery of halophilic microbes allows them to thrive in
extreme saline environments. That these microorganisms can prosper in hypersaline …

Halophilic and halotolerant microorganisms represent promising sources of salt-tolerant
enzymes that could be used in various biotechnological processes where high salt …

Brine shrimp (Artemia) has existed on Earth for 400 million years and has major ecological
importance in hypersaline ecosystems. As a crucial live food in aquaculture, brine shrimp …