Most research on microorganisms adapted to hypersaline habitats has focused on Archaea
and Bacteria, with microbial eukaryotes receiving much less attention. Over the past 15 yr …

The capacity of halophiles to thrive in extreme hypersaline habitats derives partly from the
tight regulation of ion homeostasis, the salt-dependent adjustment of plasma membrane …

Halophilic microbes living in hypersaline environments must counteract the detrimental
effects of low water activity and salt interference. Some halophilic prokaryotes equilibrate …

Brine shrimp Artemia franciscana, a commercially important species, can thrive in a wide
range of salinities and is commonly found in hypersaline lakes and solar salterns …

The advent of molecular tools in microbial ecology paved the way to exploit the diversity of
microbes in extreme environments. Here, we review these tools as applied in one of the …

We used high-throughput sequencing to unravel the genetic diversity of protistan (including
fungal) plankton in hypersaline ponds of the Ria Formosa solar saltern works in Portugal …

Application of deep sequencing technologies to environmental samples and some detailed
morphological studies suggest that there is a vast, yet unexplored rare ciliate biosphere …

Heterotrophic protists (protozoa) are a diverse but understudied component of the biota of
extremely hypersaline environments, with few data on molecular diversity within halophile …

Solar salterns are excellent artificial systems for examining species diversity and succession
along salinity gradients. Here, the eukaryotic community in surface water of a Korean solar …

Loxocephalids represent a nonmonophyletic assemblage of oligohymenophorean ciliates
with morphological features common to both scuticociliates (mode of ontogenesis) and …