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Hypersaline Environments of Iran: Prokaryotic Biodiversity and Their Potentials in Microbial Biotechnology

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Extremophiles in Eurasian Ecosystems: Ecology, Diversity, and Applications

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Abstract

Hypersaline environments are widespread in all parts of the world. Iran is a country with continental climate. Saline lakes and wetlands are found everywhere in Iran, and most of them are seasonal lakes and only have water in winter and spring and with increasing sunlight, they become dry. In recent years, several studies have been carried out on biodiversity and biotechnological applications of isolated microorganisms from different hypersaline lakes of Iran, and they were categorized into two groups. First, the ecological and taxonomic studies and second the studies on biotechnological applications of native microorganisms. In this chapter, we described different saline environments of Iran and notified the studies about diversity of halophilic microorganisms in these environments. Furthermore, we discussed studies that exhibited the biotechnological potential and/or application of these native halophilic and halotolerant microorgnisms.

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Safarpour, A., Amoozegar, M.A., Ventosa, A. (2018). Hypersaline Environments of Iran: Prokaryotic Biodiversity and Their Potentials in Microbial Biotechnology. In: Egamberdieva, D., Birkeland, NK., Panosyan, H., Li, WJ. (eds) Extremophiles in Eurasian Ecosystems: Ecology, Diversity, and Applications. Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 8. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0329-6_9

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