Heterotrophic Protists in Hypersaline Microbial Mats and Deep Hypersaline Basin Water Columns
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Heterotrophic Protists in Hypersaline Microbial Mats and Deep Hypersaline Basin Water Columns
Although hypersaline environments pose challenges to life because of the low water content (water activity), many such habitats appear to support eukaryotic microbes. This contribution presents brief reviews of our current knowledge on eukaryotes of water-column haloclines and brines from Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins (DHABs) of the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as shallow-water hypersaline m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Life
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2075-1729
DOI: 10.3390/life3020346