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Properties of Halococcus salifodinae, an Isolate from Permian Rock Salt Deposits, Compared with Halococci from Surface Waters

Andrea Legat,
Ewald B. M. Denner,
Marion Dornmayr-Pfaffenhuemer,
Peter Pfeiffer,
Burkhard Knopf,
Harald Claus,
Claudia Gruber,
Helmut König,
Gerhard Wanner and
Helga Stan-Lotter

Life2013, 3(1), 244-259;https://doi.org/10.3390/life3010244

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28 February 2013

Halococcus salifodinae BIp^T DSM 8989^T, an extremely halophilic archaeal isolate from an Austrian salt deposit (Bad Ischl), whose origin was dated to the Permian period, was described in 1994. Subsequently, several strains of the species have been iso...

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Halophilic Archaea: Life with Desiccation, Radiation and Oligotrophy over Geological Times

Helga Stan-Lotter and
Sergiu Fendrihan

Life2015, 5(3), 1487-1496;https://doi.org/10.3390/life5031487

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28 July 2015

Halophilic archaebacteria (Haloarchaea) can survive extreme desiccation, starvation and radiation, sometimes apparently for millions of years. Several of the strategies that are involved appear specific for Haloarchaea (for example, the formation of...

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Utilization of Sugarcane Bagasse by Halogeometricum borinquense Strain E3 for Biosynthesis of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate)

Bhakti B. Salgaonkar and
Judith M. Bragança

Bioengineering2017, 4(2), 50;https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering4020050

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25 May 2017

Sugarcane bagasse (SCB), one of the major lignocellulosic agro-industrial waste products, was used as a substrate for biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) by halophilic archaea. Among the various wild-type halophilic archaeal strains screened,...

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