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Taxonomy of Halophilic Archaea and Bacteria

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Advances in Understanding the Biology of Halophilic Microorganisms

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Microorganisms that inhabit hypersaline habitats are designated as halophiles and they are extremophilic organisms that must cope not only with the high ionic composition but also with other environmental factors such as alkaline pH values, low oxygen availability, high or low temperatures, presence of heavy metals and/or other toxic compounds, etc. They are normal inhabitants of natural saline environments such as saline lakes and soils, marine and inland salterns and several other hypersaline habitats. Besides, they are found in a variety of food products and several other saline derived goods. In this chapter we review the taxonomy of Halophilic Arcgaea abd Bacteria as well as the features and criteria which are used for taxonomic characterization. We emphasize those aspects that could be of interest for scientists for the correct characterization of these microorganisms.

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Research by authors was supported by grants from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CGL2010–19303), National Science Foundation (Grant DEB-0919290) and Junta de Andalucía (P10-CVI-6226). FEDER funds also supported their studies.

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Ventosa, A., Márquez, M.C., Sánchez-Porro, C., de la Haba, R.R. (2012). Taxonomy of Halophilic Archaea and Bacteria. In: Vreeland, R.H. (eds) Advances in Understanding the Biology of Halophilic Microorganisms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5539-0_3

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