Halophile - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Halophiles include bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. One definition of halophile is that of Oren [135], who defines them as microorganisms with optimal growth at NaCl concentrations over 0.2 M. Halotolerance ranges widely, from marine organisms that grow at about 3.5% (w/v) NaCl, to moderate halophiles growing at 3–15% NaCl, to moderately halophilic organisms found at over 10% w/v NaCl (1.7 M), and extreme halophiles that grow in saturated 30% w/v NaCl solutions [136]. There are many examples of hypersaline environments worldwide: among the best characterized are the Dead Sea and Great Salt Lake, but such environments have been also found in Australia, Romania and elsewhere. Other examples are anoxic brine pools found on the bottom of the Red Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, which display steep gradients in temperature, depth and salinity [137,138]. Our understanding of these environments has increased greatly thanks to the availability of high-throughput sequencing and metagenomic a

Halophiles include bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. One definition of halophile is that of Oren [135], who defines them as microorganisms with optimal growth at NaCl concentrations over 0.2 M. Halotolerance ranges widely, from marine organisms that grow at about 3.5% (w/v) NaCl, to moderate halophiles growing at 3–15% NaCl, to moderately halophilic organisms found at over 10% w/v NaCl (1.7 M), and extreme halophiles that grow in saturated 30% w/v NaCl solutions [136]. There are many examples of hypersaline environments worldwide: among the best characterized are the Dead Sea and Great Salt La