Deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basins (DHABs) are considered to be among the most
extreme ecosystems on our planet, allowing only the life of polyextremophilic organisms …

Haloarchaea are heterotrophic members of the Archaea that thrive in hypersaline
environments, often feeding off the glycerol that is produced as an osmolyte by eucaryotic …

Hypersaline anoxic habitats harbour numerous novel uncultured archaea whose metabolic
and ecological roles remain to be elucidated. Until recently, it was believed that energy …

Established in 2016, the family Pleolipoviridae comprises globally distributed archaeal
viruses that produce pleomorphic particles. Pseudo-spherical enveloped virions of …

The ubiquity of strictly anaerobic sulfur-respiring haloarchaea in hypersaline systems with
circumneutral pH has shaken a traditional concept of this group as predominantly aerobic …

Archaea are environmentally ubiquitous on Earth, and their extremophilic and metabolically
versatile phenotypes make them useful as model systems for astrobiology. Here, we reveal …

Several EU projects funded during the FP7 programme and currently under the topic 'Blue
Growth'of Horizon 2020 aim at improving the exploitation of marine organisms for several …

The microbial recycling of organic matter in marine sediments depends upon electron
acceptors that are utilized based on availability and energetic yield. Since sulfate is the most …

The knowledge on the microbial diversity inhabiting hypersaline sediments is still limited. In
particular, existing data about anaerobic hypersaline archaea and bacteria are scarce and …

Extremely halophilic Archaea are the only known hosts for pleolipoviruses which are
pleomorphic non-lytic viruses resembling cellular membrane vesicles. Recently …