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Morphological and structural aspects of the extremely halophilic archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Ultrathin square cell Haloquadratum walsbyi from the Archaea domain are the most abundant microorganisms in the hypersaline water of coastal salterns and continental salt lakes.
Matilde Sublimi Saponetti, Fabrizio Bobba, Grazia Salerno, Alessandro Scarfato, Angela Corcelli, Annamaria Cucolo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nature and Artificiality: in Search of a lost Harmony

Agathón, 2017
Maghreb’s desert, an eternal landscape of slow and irrational creation, or the Motya’s Salterns, geometrical landscape, logical and violent. Both landscapes capture our attention: the desert enhances nature, it is not susceptible to enduring changes and ...
Giuseppe De Giovanni
doaj   +1 more source

White Is a New Shade of Blue Carbon: A Case Study of a Traditional Salt Production Pond That is a Net Carbon Sink

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Volume 131, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract To address for the first time the carbon budget of traditional salterns, we measured the diel, seasonal, and spatial variability of water‐air CO2‐eq fluxes (CH4 and CO2) and the Organic Carbon (OC) stock and burial rate in the sediment. Temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and wind were assessed as potential environmental drivers of the
Ana Alexandre, Carmen B. de los Santos, Javier Jiménez Herrero, Alizé Deguette, João Silva, Márcio Martins, Filipe Parreira, Nadine Schubert, Saray P. de la Rosa, Rui Santos   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low Water Activity Induces the Production of Bioactive Metabolites in Halophilic and Halotolerant Fungi

Marine Drugs, 2010
The aim of the present study was to investigate indigenous fungal communities isolated from extreme environments (hypersaline waters of solar salterns and subglacial ice), for the production of metabolic compounds with selected biological activities ...
Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Polona Zalar, Kristina Sepcic   +2 more
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Fungal Diversity and Composition of the Continental Solar Saltern in Añana Salt Valley (Spain)

Journal of Fungi, 2021
The Añana Salt Valley in Spain is an active continental solar saltern formed 220 million years ago. To date, no fungal genomic studies of continental salterns have been published, although DNA metabarcoding has recently expanded researchers’ ability to ...
Maia Azpiazu-Muniozguren, Alba Perez, Aitor Rementeria, Irati Martinez-Malaxetxebarria, Rodrigo Alonso, Lorena Laorden, Javier Gamboa, Joseba Bikandi, Javier Garaizar, Ilargi Martinez-Ballesteros   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Morphology, Ultrastructure, and Classification of Barthelonids (Metamonada Incertae Sedis): With Descriptions of Microbarthelona Gen. Nov., and Parabarthelona Gen. Nov.

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Volume 73, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Barthelona is a genus of anaerobic flagellates that forms a sister lineage to Fornicata along with Skoliomonas. Although “Barthelona spp.” are known to separate into three distinct lineages, their detailed morphology has not been examined, and their taxonomic classification is incomplete.
Takashi Shiratori, Yana Eglit, Euki Yazaki, Yuji Inagaki, Alastair G. B. Simpson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A New Era for Using Natural Pigments: The Case of the C50 Carotenoid Called Bacterioruberin

Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 913-926, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Haloarchaea are extremophilic microorganisms belonging to the Archaea domain that require high salt concentrations to live, thus inhabiting ecosystems like salty ponds, salty marshes, or extremely salty lagoons. They are more abundant and widely distributed worldwide than initially expected.
Micaela Giani, Elena Valdés, José María Miralles‐Robledillo, Guillermo Martínez, Carmen Pire, Rosa María Martínez‐Espinosa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Airborne Halophilic and Non‐Halophilic Microbial Communities in an Underground Salt Mine Affected by Seasonal Environmental Fluctuations

Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026.
This study tests seasonal controls on airborne microbes in the UNESCO‐listed Bochnia Salt Mine. In summer, relative humidity exceeded the halite deliquescence threshold, coinciding with higher NaCl aerosol and greater densities of halophilic microbes; in winter, humidity stayed below deliquescence and halophilic microbes declined at least 13‐fold while
Aleksandra Puławska, Michalina Rachubik, Dominika Drzewiecka, Luciana Albuquerque, Conceiçao Egas, Jolanta Kalinowska, Krzysztof Krawczyk, Maciej Manecki, Camille Locht, Magdalena Kowalewicz‐Kulbat   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extremophilic Microorganisms in Central Europe

Microorganisms, 2021
Extremophiles inhabit a wide variety of environments. Here we focus on extremophiles in moderate climates in central Europe, and particularly in Slovenia.
Vera Zgonik, Janez Mulec, Tina Eleršek, Nives Ogrinc, Polona Jamnik, Nataša Poklar Ulrih   +5 more
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Extreme Salinity Change Governs Microbial Community Assembly and Interactions

Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026.
Along the Coorong Lagoon's extreme salinity gradient, hypersalinity deterministically enriches halophilic specialists and reorganises sediment microbial networks. Network complexity peaks at salinity extremes, revealing pivotal ecological trade‐offs that will steer nutrient cycling and lagoon resilience as coastal wetland salinisation accelerates ...
Christopher Keneally, Virginie Gaget, Daniel Chilton, Tyler N. Dornan, James Hensel, Ashleigh E. Keneally, Stephen P. Kidd, Justin D. Brookes   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source