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review of microbial biosorbents. Int J Environ Res Public Health 14:1–14
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spatiotemporal differences between microbial assemblages from two neighboring sulfurous
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Microbiol 66:499–508
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Al-Maghrabi IMA, Bin Aqil AA, Islam MR, Chalaal O (1999) Use of thermophilic bacteria for
bioremediation of petroleum contaminants. Energy Sources 21:17–29
Amachi S, Minami K, Miyasaka I, Fukunaga S (2010) Ability of anaerobic microorganisms to
associate with iodine: 1251 tracer experiments using laboratory strains and enriched microbial
communities from subsurface formation water. Chemosphere 79:349–354
Arora S, Trivedi R, Rao GG (2012) Bioremediation of coastal and inland salt affected soils using
halophilic soil microbes. Salinity News 18:3
Arora S, Vanza M, Mehta R, Bhuva C, Patel P (2014) Halophilic microbes for bio-remediation of
salt affected soils. Afr J Microbiol Res 8:3070–3078. https://doi.org/10.5897/AJMR2014.6960
Arulazhagan P, Al-Shekri K, Huda Q, Godon JJ, Basahi JM, Jeyakumar D (2017) Biodegradation
of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by an acidophilic Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain
AJH1 isolated from a mineral mining site in Saudi Arabia. Extremophiles 21:163–174
Aurenik KS, Maezato Y, Blum PH, Kelly RM (2008) The genome sequence of the metalmobilizing, extremely thermophilic archaeon Metallosphaera sedula provides insight into
bioleaching-associated metabolism. Appl Environ Microbiol 74:682–692
Ayangbenro AS, Babalola OO (2017) A new strategy for heavy metal polluted environments: a
review of microbial biosorbents. Int J Environ Res Public Health 14:1–14
Blazquez B, Carmona M, Díaz E (2018) Transcriptional regulation of the peripheral pathway for the
anaerobic catabolism of toluene and m-xylene in Azoarcus sp. CIB. Front Microbiol 9:506.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00506
Bonete M, Martínez-Espinosa R (2011) Enzymes from halophilic archaea: open questions. In:
Ventosa A, Orena A, Ma Y (eds) Halophiles and hypersaline environments, 1st edn. Springer,
Berlin, pp 359–373. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20198-1_19
Bonete M, Bautista V, Esclapez J, Garcia-Bonete M, Pire C, Camacho M et al (2015) New uses of
haloarchaeal species in bioremediation processes. In: Shiomi M (ed) Advances in bioremediation of wastewater and polluted soil, 1st edn. InTech, Shanghai, pp 23–49. https://doi.org/10.
5772/60667
Bonfa MRL, Grossman MJ, Mellado E, Durrant LR (2011) Biodegradation of aromatic hydrocarbons by Haloarchaea and their use for the reduction of the chemical oxygen demand of
hypersaline petroleum produced water. Chemosphere 84:1671–1676
Brim H, Venkateswaran A, Kostandarithes HM, Fredrickson JK, Daly MJ (2003) Engineering
Deinococcus geothermalis for bioremediation of high-temperature radioactive waste environments. Appl Environ Microbiol 69:4575–4582
Brock TD (1977) The value of basic research: discovery of Thermus aquaticus and other extreme
thermophiles. Genetics 146:1207–1210
Butler CS, Mason JR (1997) Structure-function analysis of the bacterial aromatic ringhydroxylating dioxygenases. Adv Microb Physiol 38:47–84
Cabrera MA, Blamey JM (2018) Biotechnological application of archaeal enzymes from extreme
environments. Biol Res 51:37
Casamayor EO, Schafer H, Baneras L, Pedro-Alio C, Muyzer G (2000) Identification of and
spatiotemporal differences between microbial assemblages from two neighboring sulfurous
lakes: comparison by microscopy and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Appl Environ
Microbiol 66:499–508
Castillo RF, Roldan RM, Blasco PR, Huertas RM, Caballero DF, Moreno-Vivian C, Martinez LM
(2005) Biotecnología Ambiental, 1st edn. Editorial Tebar, Spain, pp 377–387
Cavicchioli R (2011) Archaea-timeline of the third domain. Nat Rev Microbiol 9:51–61
Chaudhary A, Pasha MI, Salgaonkar BB, Braganca JM (2014) Cadmium tolerance by Haloarchaeal
strains isolated from solar saltrens of Goa, India. Intl J Biosci Biochem Bioinform 4:1–6
Cisar JL, Snyder GH (2000) Fate and management of turfgrass chemicals. ACS Symp Ser
743:106–126
Damgaard LR, Nielsen LP, Revsbech NP (2001) Methane microprofiles in a sewage bio-film
determined with a microscale biosensor. Water Res 35(6):1379–1386
Das D, Salgaonkar BB, Mani K, Braganca JM (2014) Cadmium resistance in extremely halophilic
archaeon Haloferax strain BBK2. Chemosphere 112:385–392
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