Living with salt: metabolic and phylogenetic diversity of archaea inhabiting saline ecosystems.

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Summary

The recent discovery of a new group of extremely halophilic Euryarchaeota, the yet uncultured Nanohaloarchaea, shows that the archaeal diversity and metabolic variability in hypersaline environments is higher than hitherto estimated.

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review
Published
2012-05-01
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Keywords

Archaea, Halophile, Haloarchaea, Euryarchaeota, Biology

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