1. Microbial community development on the surface of Hans and Werenskiold Glaciers (Svalbard, Arctic): a comparison

   • Jakub Grzesiak
   • Dorota Górniak
   • Marek K. Zdanowski

   Original Paper Open access 24 June 2015 Pages: 885 - 897

   

2. Desulfonatronobacter acetoxydans sp. nov.,: a first acetate-oxidizing, extremely salt-tolerant alkaliphilic SRB from a hypersaline soda lake

   • D. Y. Sorokin
   • N. A. Chernyh
   • M. N. Poroshina

   Original Paper Open access 18 June 2015 Pages: 899 - 907

   

3. Membrane-bound amylopullulanase is essential for starch metabolism of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius DSM639

   • Kyoung-Hwa Choi
   • Jaeho Cha

   Original Paper 24 June 2015 Pages: 909 - 920

   

4. Transcriptome-wide analysis of DEAD-box RNA helicase gene family in an Antarctic psychrophilic alga Chlamydomonas sp. ICE-L

   • Chenlin Liu
   • Xiaohang Huang

   Original Paper 16 July 2015 Pages: 921 - 931

   

5. Medium-based optimization of an organic solvent-tolerant extracellular lipase from the isolated halophilic Alkalibacillus salilacus

   • Amene Samaei-Nouroozi
   • Shahla Rezaei
   • Mohammad Ali Faramarzi

   Original Paper 22 July 2015 Pages: 933 - 947

   

6. Inter-comparison of the potentially active prokaryotic communities in the halocline sediments of Mediterranean deep-sea hypersaline basins

   • Konstantinos A. Kormas
   • Maria G. Pachiadaki
   • Virginia P. Edgcomb

   Original Paper 16 July 2015 Pages: 949 - 960

   

7. Detergent-, solvent- and salt-compatible thermoactive alkaline serine protease from halotolerant alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. NPST-AK15: purification and characterization

   • Abdelnasser S. S. Ibrahim
   • Ali A. Al-Salamah
   • Garabed Antranikian

   Original Paper 10 July 2015 Pages: 961 - 971

   

8. A snapshot of microbial communities from the Kutch: one of the largest salt deserts in the World

   • Aanal S. Pandit
   • Madhvi N. Joshi
   • Snehal B. Bagatharia

   Original Paper 18 July 2015 Pages: 973 - 987

   

9. Extracellular peptidases from Deinococcus radiodurans

   • Gabriel Z. L. Dalmaso
   • Claudia A. S. Lage
   • Alane B. Vermelho

   Original Paper 28 July 2015 Pages: 989 - 999

   

10. Enlarging the substrate portfolio of the thermophilic esterase EST2 from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius

    • Angela Pennacchio
    • Luigi Mandrich
    • Antonio Trincone

    Original Paper 28 July 2015 Pages: 1001 - 1011

    

11. Tellurite-, tellurate-, and selenite-based anaerobic respiration by strain CM-3 isolated from gold mine tailings

    • Chris Maltman
    • Michele D. Piercey-Normore
    • Vladimir Yurkov

    Original Paper 09 August 2015 Pages: 1013 - 1019

    

12. High production of bacteriorhodopsin from wild type Halobacterium salinarum

    • Mansooreh-Sadat Seyedkarimi
    • Asieh Aramvash
    • Rohollah Ramezani

    Original Paper 09 August 2015 Pages: 1021 - 1028

    

13. System-level understanding of the potential acid-tolerance components of Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans ZJJN-3 under extreme acid stress

    • Shoushuai Feng
    • Hailin Yang
    • Wu Wang

    Original Paper 12 August 2015 Pages: 1029 - 1039

    

14. Polymerase chain reaction-based screening method applicable universally to environmental haloarchaea and halobacteria for identifying polyhydroxyalkanoate producers among them

    • Riddhi Mahansaria
    • Jayanta Debabrata Choudhury
    • Joydeep Mukherjee

    Method Paper 04 August 2015 Pages: 1041 - 1054