halophile


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Synonyms for halophile

archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival

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Abatzopoulos, "HaloDom: a new database of halophiles across all life domains," Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki, vol.
"The halophile, or salt-loving, environment has typically been considered one that life adapted into, not started in," Blaber said.
The tenth species has a pantropical distribution but undoubtedly arrived without human aid, because it is a halophile and can be found on floating wood.
Flore rare, menacee et halophile. Acta Botanica Malacitana Malaga, 29: 43-66.
& Iberite, M.--2002--The halophile vegetation of the sedimendary coast of Lazio (central Tyrrhenian district, Italy)--Plant Biosyst.
Oesterhelt, "Systems analysis of bioenergetics and growth of the extreme halophile Halobacterium salinarum," PLoS Computational Biology, vol.
In exhaustive comparison with moderately halophilic bacteria, it was sound fresh water bacteria with less tolerant NaCl, were very poor to produce hydrolytic enzyme activities, in the other hands halophile and halotolerant bacteria were higher variety producers of hydrolytic enzymes.
Within the phylum of the Euryarchaeota, the organism belongs to the class of halobacteria, the extremely halophile branch of the domain Archaea.
A comparative study of 23 S ribosomal RNAs of a sulphur-dependent extreme thermophile, an extreme halophile and a thermophilic methanogen," Journal of Molecular Biology, vol.
Thermophile Halophile sulphur (THS) medium containing (g/l) [K.sub.2]HP[O.sub.4] (0.5), MgS[O.sub.4] x 7[H.sub.2]O (0.1), Ca[Cl.sub.2] x 2[H.sub.2]O (0.1), [(N[H.sub.4]).sub.2]S[O.sub.4] (0.2), NaCl (2.0), and Agar- agar [20] with 120ml/litre of solubilized bitumen (bitumen was solubilized by dissolved 0.9g of bitumen in 2ml of n-hexane) was used for isolation.