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Journey to diverse microbial worlds. Adaptation to exotic
environments. Kluver Academic, Dordrecht, pp 241–252
Campanaro S, Vezzi A, Vitulo N, Lauro FM, D’Angelo M, Simonato F,
Cestaro A, Malacrida G, Bertoloni G, Valle G, Bartlett DH (2005)
Laterally transferred elements and high pressure adaptation in
Photobacterium profundum strains. BMC Genomics 6:122
Cita MB (2006) Exhumation of Messinian evaporites in the deep-sea
and creation of deep anoxic brine-filled collapsed basins. Sediment
Geol 188–189:357–378
Colmer AR, Temple KL, Hinkle HE (1950) An iron-oxidizing bacterium from the acid drainage of some bituminous coal mines. J
Bacteriol 59:317–328
D’Amico S, Collins T, Marx JC, Feller G, Gerday C (2006) Psychrophilic microorganisms: challenges for life. EMBO Rep
7:385–389
Daffonchio D et al (2006) Stratified prokaryote network in the
oxic–anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline. Nature 440:203–207
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megaplasmids. In: Schwartz E (ed) Megaplasmids. Springer,
Berlin/Heidelberg, pp 3–30
Deming JW, Baross JA (1993) Deep-sea smokers: windows to a subsurface biosphere. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 57:3219–3230
Edwards KJ, Bond PL, Gihrin TM, Banfield JF (2000) An archaeal
iron-oxidizing extreme acidophile important in acidic mine drainage. Science 287:1796–1798
Ehrlich HL (2002) Geomicrobiology, 4th edn. Marcel Dekker, New York
Erauso G, Prieur D, Godfroy A, Raguenes G (1995) Plate cultivation
techniques for strictly anaerobic, thermophilic, sulfur-metabolizing
archae. In: Robb FT, Place AR (eds) Archaea: a laboratory manual.
Thermophiles. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring
Harbor, pp 25–29
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biotechnology. Scientifica. Article ID 512840, 28 pages. doi:10.
1155/2013/512840
Ferna ´ndez-Remolar D, Rodrı ´guez N, Go ´mez F, Amils R (2003) The
geological record of an acidic environment driven by iron
hydrochemistry: the Tinto River system. J Geophys Res 108:6.
doi:10.1029/2002JE001918
Ferna ´ndez-Remolar D, Morris RV, Gruener JE, Amils R, Knoll AH
(2005) The Rı ´o Tinto basin, Spain: mineralogy, sedimentary
geobiology and implications for interpretation of outcrop rocks at
Meridiani Planum, Mars. Earth Planet Sci Lett 240:149–167
Flores GE, Wagner I, Liu Y, Reysenbach A-L (2012) Distribution, abundance, and diversity patterns of the thermoacidophilic “Deep-sea
Hydrothermal Vent Euryarchaeota 2” (DHVE2). Front Microbiol 3:47
Gales G, Chehider N, Joulian C, Battaglia-Brunet F, Cayol J-L, Postec
A, Borgomano J, Neria-Gonzalez I, Lomans BP, Ollivier B, Alazard
D (2011) Characterization of Halanaerocella petrolearia gen. nov.,
sp. nov., a new anaerobic moderately halophilic fermentative bacterium isolated from a deep subsurface hypersaline oil reservoir.
Extremophiles 15:565–571
Godfroy A, Postec A, Raven N (2006) Growth of hyperthermophilic
microorganisms for physiological and nutritional studies. In:
Rainey FA, Oren A (eds) Methods in microbiology, extremophiles.
Academic, Oxford, pp 93–108
Gonza ´lez-Toril E, Llobet-Brossa E, Casamayor EO, Amann R, Amils R
(2003) Microbial ecology of an extreme acidic environment, the
Tinto River. Appl Environ Microbiol 69:4853–4865
Gonzalez-Torril E, Garcia-Moyano A, Amils R (2005) Phylogeny of
prokaryotic microorganisms from the Tinto River. In: Harrison
STL, Rawlings DE, Pedersen J (eds) IBS-2005. Compress, Cape
Town, pp 737–749
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alkaliphiles. In: Horikoshi K, Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT,
Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/
Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York, pp 27–54
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prokaryotes. Adv Appl Microbiol 49:37–84
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psychrotrophic bacteria. In: Inouye M, Yamanaka K (eds) Cold shock
response and adaptation. Horizon Scientific Press, Norfolk, pp 41–60
Horikoshi H (2011) Enzymes isolated from Alkaliphiles. In: Horikoshi
K, Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds)
Extremophiles handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/
Heidelberg/London/New York, pp 163–181
Jannasch HW, Wirsen CO (1973) Deep-sea microorganisms: in situ
response to nutrient enrichment. Science 180:641–643
Kelly DP, Wood AP (2000) Reclassification of some species of
Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen.
nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50:511–516
Kivisto AT, Karp MT (2011) Halophilic anaerobic fermentative bacteria. J Biotechnol 152:114–124
Krulwich TA, Liu J, Morino M, Fujisawa M, Ito M, Hicks DB (2011)
Adaptative mechanisms of extreme alkaliphiles. In: Horikoshi K,
Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles
handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/
New York, pp 119–139
La Cono V et al (2011) Unveiling microbial life in new deep-sea
hypersaline Lake Thetis. Part I: prokaryotes and environmental
settings. Environ Microbiol 13:2250–2289
Larsen H (1962) Halophilism. In: Gunsalus IC, Stanier RY (eds) The
bacteria, vol 4. Academic, New York, pp 297–342
Litchfield CD (2004) Microbial molecular and physiological diversity
in hypersaline environments. In: Ventosa A (ed) Halophilic
microorganisms. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, pp 49–58
Luo H, Robb FT (2011) Thermophilic protein folding systems. In:
Horikoshi K, Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds)
Extremophiles handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/
Heidelberg/London/New York, pp 583–599
Madigan M, Martinko J (2007) Brock biologie des micro-organismes.
Pearson Education France, Paris
Mikucki JA, Han SK, Lanoil BD (2011) Ecology of psychrophiles:
subglacial and permafrost environments. In: Horikoshi K,
Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles
handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/
New York, pp 755–775
Moreno ML, Perez D, Garcia MT, Mellado E (2013) Halophilic bacteria as a source of novel hydrolytic enzymes. Life 3:38–51
Morita RY (1975) Psychrophilic bacteria. Bacteriol Rev 39:144–167
Nogi Y (2011) Taxonomy of psychrophiles. In: Horikoshi K,
Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles
handbook, vol 2. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/
New York, pp 777–792
Ollivier B, Caumette P, Garcia JL, Mah RA (1994) Anaerobic bacteria
from hypersaline environments. Microbiol Rev 58:27–38
Oren A (2006) Molecular ecology of extremely halophilic Archaea and
Bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 39:1–7
Oren A (2011) Ecology of halophiles. In: Horikoshi K, Antranikian G,
Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles handbook,
vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York,
pp 343–361
Oren A, Gurevich P, Azachi M, Henis Y (1992) Microbial degradation
of polluants at high salt concentrations. Biodegradation 3:387–398
Price PB (2007) Microbial life in glacial ice and implications for a cold
origin of life. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 59:217–231
10 The Extreme Conditions of Life on the Planet and Exobiology
393
Buchalo AS, Nevo E, Wasser SP, Volz PA (2000) Newly discovered
halophilic fungi in the Dead Sea (Israel). In: Seckback J (ed)
Journey to diverse microbial worlds. Adaptation to exotic
environments. Kluver Academic, Dordrecht, pp 241–252
Campanaro S, Vezzi A, Vitulo N, Lauro FM, D’Angelo M, Simonato F,
Cestaro A, Malacrida G, Bertoloni G, Valle G, Bartlett DH (2005)
Laterally transferred elements and high pressure adaptation in
Photobacterium profundum strains. BMC Genomics 6:122
Cita MB (2006) Exhumation of Messinian evaporites in the deep-sea
and creation of deep anoxic brine-filled collapsed basins. Sediment
Geol 188–189:357–378
Colmer AR, Temple KL, Hinkle HE (1950) An iron-oxidizing bacterium from the acid drainage of some bituminous coal mines. J
Bacteriol 59:317–328
D’Amico S, Collins T, Marx JC, Feller G, Gerday C (2006) Psychrophilic microorganisms: challenges for life. EMBO Rep
7:385–389
Daffonchio D et al (2006) Stratified prokaryote network in the
oxic–anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline. Nature 440:203–207
DasSarma S, Capes M, DasSarma P (2008) Haloarchaeal
megaplasmids. In: Schwartz E (ed) Megaplasmids. Springer,
Berlin/Heidelberg, pp 3–30
Deming JW, Baross JA (1993) Deep-sea smokers: windows to a subsurface biosphere. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 57:3219–3230
Edwards KJ, Bond PL, Gihrin TM, Banfield JF (2000) An archaeal
iron-oxidizing extreme acidophile important in acidic mine drainage. Science 287:1796–1798
Ehrlich HL (2002) Geomicrobiology, 4th edn. Marcel Dekker, New York
Erauso G, Prieur D, Godfroy A, Raguenes G (1995) Plate cultivation
techniques for strictly anaerobic, thermophilic, sulfur-metabolizing
archae. In: Robb FT, Place AR (eds) Archaea: a laboratory manual.
Thermophiles. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring
Harbor, pp 25–29
Feller G (2013) Psychrophilic enzymes: from folding to function and
biotechnology. Scientifica. Article ID 512840, 28 pages. doi:10.
1155/2013/512840
Ferna ´ndez-Remolar D, Rodrı ´guez N, Go ´mez F, Amils R (2003) The
geological record of an acidic environment driven by iron
hydrochemistry: the Tinto River system. J Geophys Res 108:6.
doi:10.1029/2002JE001918
Ferna ´ndez-Remolar D, Morris RV, Gruener JE, Amils R, Knoll AH
(2005) The Rı ´o Tinto basin, Spain: mineralogy, sedimentary
geobiology and implications for interpretation of outcrop rocks at
Meridiani Planum, Mars. Earth Planet Sci Lett 240:149–167
Flores GE, Wagner I, Liu Y, Reysenbach A-L (2012) Distribution, abundance, and diversity patterns of the thermoacidophilic “Deep-sea
Hydrothermal Vent Euryarchaeota 2” (DHVE2). Front Microbiol 3:47
Gales G, Chehider N, Joulian C, Battaglia-Brunet F, Cayol J-L, Postec
A, Borgomano J, Neria-Gonzalez I, Lomans BP, Ollivier B, Alazard
D (2011) Characterization of Halanaerocella petrolearia gen. nov.,
sp. nov., a new anaerobic moderately halophilic fermentative bacterium isolated from a deep subsurface hypersaline oil reservoir.
Extremophiles 15:565–571
Godfroy A, Postec A, Raven N (2006) Growth of hyperthermophilic
microorganisms for physiological and nutritional studies. In:
Rainey FA, Oren A (eds) Methods in microbiology, extremophiles.
Academic, Oxford, pp 93–108
Gonza ´lez-Toril E, Llobet-Brossa E, Casamayor EO, Amann R, Amils R
(2003) Microbial ecology of an extreme acidic environment, the
Tinto River. Appl Environ Microbiol 69:4853–4865
Gonzalez-Torril E, Garcia-Moyano A, Amils R (2005) Phylogeny of
prokaryotic microorganisms from the Tinto River. In: Harrison
STL, Rawlings DE, Pedersen J (eds) IBS-2005. Compress, Cape
Town, pp 737–749
Grant WD (1992) Alkaline environments. In: Lederberg J (ed) Encyclopedia of microbiology, vol 2. Academic, New York, pp 73–84
Grant WD, Sorokin DY (2011) Distribution and diversity of soda lakes
alkaliphiles. In: Horikoshi K, Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT,
Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/
Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York, pp 27–54
Hallberg KB, Johnson DB (2001) Biodiversity of acidophilic
prokaryotes. Adv Appl Microbiol 49:37–84
He ´braud M, Potier P (2000) Cold acclimation and cold shock response in
psychrotrophic bacteria. In: Inouye M, Yamanaka K (eds) Cold shock
response and adaptation. Horizon Scientific Press, Norfolk, pp 41–60
Horikoshi H (2011) Enzymes isolated from Alkaliphiles. In: Horikoshi
K, Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds)
Extremophiles handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/
Heidelberg/London/New York, pp 163–181
Jannasch HW, Wirsen CO (1973) Deep-sea microorganisms: in situ
response to nutrient enrichment. Science 180:641–643
Kelly DP, Wood AP (2000) Reclassification of some species of
Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen.
nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50:511–516
Kivisto AT, Karp MT (2011) Halophilic anaerobic fermentative bacteria. J Biotechnol 152:114–124
Krulwich TA, Liu J, Morino M, Fujisawa M, Ito M, Hicks DB (2011)
Adaptative mechanisms of extreme alkaliphiles. In: Horikoshi K,
Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles
handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/
New York, pp 119–139
La Cono V et al (2011) Unveiling microbial life in new deep-sea
hypersaline Lake Thetis. Part I: prokaryotes and environmental
settings. Environ Microbiol 13:2250–2289
Larsen H (1962) Halophilism. In: Gunsalus IC, Stanier RY (eds) The
bacteria, vol 4. Academic, New York, pp 297–342
Litchfield CD (2004) Microbial molecular and physiological diversity
in hypersaline environments. In: Ventosa A (ed) Halophilic
microorganisms. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, pp 49–58
Luo H, Robb FT (2011) Thermophilic protein folding systems. In:
Horikoshi K, Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds)
Extremophiles handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/
Heidelberg/London/New York, pp 583–599
Madigan M, Martinko J (2007) Brock biologie des micro-organismes.
Pearson Education France, Paris
Mikucki JA, Han SK, Lanoil BD (2011) Ecology of psychrophiles:
subglacial and permafrost environments. In: Horikoshi K,
Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles
handbook, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/
New York, pp 755–775
Moreno ML, Perez D, Garcia MT, Mellado E (2013) Halophilic bacteria as a source of novel hydrolytic enzymes. Life 3:38–51
Morita RY (1975) Psychrophilic bacteria. Bacteriol Rev 39:144–167
Nogi Y (2011) Taxonomy of psychrophiles. In: Horikoshi K,
Antranikian G, Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles
handbook, vol 2. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/
New York, pp 777–792
Ollivier B, Caumette P, Garcia JL, Mah RA (1994) Anaerobic bacteria
from hypersaline environments. Microbiol Rev 58:27–38
Oren A (2006) Molecular ecology of extremely halophilic Archaea and
Bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 39:1–7
Oren A (2011) Ecology of halophiles. In: Horikoshi K, Antranikian G,
Bull AT, Robb FT, Stetter KO (eds) Extremophiles handbook,
vol 1. Springer, Tokyo/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York,
pp 343–361
Oren A, Gurevich P, Azachi M, Henis Y (1992) Microbial degradation
of polluants at high salt concentrations. Biodegradation 3:387–398
Price PB (2007) Microbial life in glacial ice and implications for a cold
origin of life. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 59:217–231
10 The Extreme Conditions of Life on the Planet and Exobiology
393