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The Red Sea is an unusually harsh marine environment, characterized by high temperature and salinity. It also harbors some of the most extreme environments on earth, the Deep Sea Brine Pools. Here, we report on the microbial communities in these environments. The water column is dominated by SAR11 and Prochlorococcus, which have developed specific adaptations to withstand the conditions. The Brine Pools have only been poorly characterized so far, and only four pure cultures are described.
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Luke Thompson, Matthew Cahill, David K. Ngugi, Uli Stingl und Andre Antunes (v. l. n. r).
Prof. Dr. Uli Stingl studierte an den Universitäten Karlsruhe und Konstanz, wo er 2005 promovierte. Danach arbeitete er als Postdoktorand am Max-Planck-Institut für Terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg, und als DFG-Stipendiat an der Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA. Bevor er sich KAUST anschloss, war Stingl als Senior Scientist bei der Biotechfirma Synthetic Genomics in La Jolla, CA, USA, beschäftigt. Seit 2009 ist er Assistant Professor für Meereswissenschaften an der King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi-Arabien. Dr. Luke Thompson, Dr. Matthew Cahill, Dr. David Kamanda Ngugi und Dr. Andre Antunes sind Postdoktoranden in der Arbeitsgruppe Marine Microbial Ecology von U. Stingl.
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Stingl, U., Ngugi, D.K., Thompson, L. et al. Mikrobielle Ökologie des Roten Meeres. Biospektrum 18, 582–584 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-012-0231-7
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