Halophiles and Hypersaline Environments

1. Helge Larsen (1922–2005) and His Contributions to the Study of Halophilic Microorganisms
Aharon Oren, Antonio Ventosa, Yanhe Ma

2. The Halophilic World of Lourens Baas Becking
Aharon Oren

3. Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Biotechnological Interest of the Family Halomonadaceae

Rafael R. Haba, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, Antonio Ventosa

4. The Hypersaline Lakes of Inner Mongolia: The MGAtech Project
William D. Grant, Eulyn Pagaling, M. Carmen Márquez, M. Carmen Gutiérrez, Don A. Cowan, Yanhe Ma, Brian E. Jones, Antonio Ventosa, Shaun Heaphy

5. From Genomics to Microevolution and Ecology: The Case of Salinibacter ruber

Arantxa Peña, Hanno Teeling, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Fernando Santos, Inmaculada Meseguer, Marianna Lucio, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Joaquín Dopazo, Ramon Rosselló-Móra, Margarete Schüler, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Rudolf Amann, Toni Gabaldón, Josefa Antón

6. Impact of Lipidomics on the Microbial World of Hypersaline Environments
Patrizia Lopalco, Simona Lobasso, Maristella Baronio, Roberto Angelini, Angela Corcelli

7. Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptations to High Salt Concentration in the Extremely Halotolerant Black Yeast Hortaea werneckii

Ana Plemenitaš, Nina Gunde-Cimerman

8. Viruses from the Hypersaline Environment
Elina Roine, Hanna M. Oksanen

9. Haloviruses of Great Salt Lake: A Model for Understanding Viral Diversity
Bonnie K. Baxter, Mihnea R. Mangalea, Smaranda Willcox, Shereen Sabet, Miriam-Nirvana Nagoulat, Jack D. Griffith

10. Initiation and Regulation of Translation in Halophilic Archaea
Jörg Soppa

11. Protein Transport Into and Across Haloarchaeal Cytoplasmic Membranes
Kieran Dilks, Maria Ines Gimenez, Manuela Tripepi, Mechthild Pohlschröder

12. Salty and Sweet: Protein Glycosylation in Haloferax volcanii

Jerry Eichler, Doron Calo, Lina Kaminski, Lina Kandiba, Zvia Konrad, Hilla Magidovich, Shai Naparstek, Sophie Yurist-Doutsch

13. Effect of Anoxic Conditions and Temperature on Gas Vesicle Formation in Halobacterium salinarum

Felicitas Pfeifer, Regina Frommherz, Karin Faist, Torsten Hechler, Katharina Teufel, Larissa Marschaus

14. Halophiles Exposed Concomitantly to Multiple Stressors: Adaptive Mechanisms of Halophilic Alkalithermophiles
Noha M. Mesbah, Juergen Wiegel

15. Cellular Adjustments of Bacillus subtilis and Other Bacilli to Fluctuating Salinities
Marco Pittelkow, Erhard Bremer

16. The Nature and Function of Carotenoids in the Moderately Halophilic Bacterium Halobacillus halophilus

Saskia Köcher, Volker Müller

17. Xanthorhodopsin
Janos K. Lanyi, Sergei P. Balashov

18. Potential Enhancement of Biofuel Production Through Enzymatic Biomass Degradation Activity and Biodiesel Production by Halophilic Microorganisms
Matthew B. Begemann, Melanie R. Mormile, Varun G. Paul, Daniel J. Vidt

19. Enzymes from Halophilic Archaea: Open Questions
María José Bonete, Rosa María Martínez-Espinosa

20. A Short History of the Symposia on Halophilic Microorganisms: From Rehovot 1978 to Beijing 2010
Aharon Oren

Keywords: Life Sciences, Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Applied Microbiology