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Halophilic and Halotolerant Non-phototrophic Eubacteria

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Hypersaline Environments

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Abstract

Halophilic, heterotrophic eubacteria share in common their general cell organization, but show many differences in modes of metabolism, salinity tolerances, and ranges of environmental conditions that permit growth. While numerous eubacteria have been isolated from hypersaline environments, relatively little is known about their activities and roles in situ. This gap in knowledge arises from the fact that little is known about the nature and concentrations of the primary organic matter produced in the euphotic zones of hypersaline environments. With the wealth of techniques used to study bacterial processes in freshwater and marine environments, microbiologists should eventually be able to describe more precisely how rapidly and to what extent halophilic eubacteria recycle organic matter in their natural habitats. The following descriptions of the ecology, physiology, and biochemistry of isolated, heterotrophic eubacteria indicate the potential role these bacteria may play in the degradation of organic matter in evaporite environments. The descriptions include the kinds of lipids they produce that might eventually become part of the hydrocarbons remaining in hypersaline sediments.

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Javor, B. (1989). Halophilic and Halotolerant Non-phototrophic Eubacteria. In: Hypersaline Environments. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74370-2_6

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