The Marinobacter genus comprises widespread marine bacteria, found in localities as diverse as the deep ocean, coastal seawater and sediment, hydrothermal settings, oceanic basalt, sea-ice, sand, solar salterns, and oil fields. Terrestrial sources include saline soil and wine-barrel-decalcification wastewater. The genus was designated in 1992 for the Gram-negative, hydrocarbon-degrading bacteri...

Hypersaline environments are widely distributed on the earth s continent where they exist either as natural water bodies such as permanent saline lakes, ephemeral saltpans and salt marshes,or as artificial solar salterns (Litchfield and Gillevet; 2002). The microbial diversity of saline lakes has been studied primarily by focusing on the isolation and characterization of individual organisms wi...

Spiribacter is the most abundant bacterial genus in intermediate-salinity zones of hypersaline environments. However, strains are extremely difficult to isolate pure culture. Therefore, characteristics, genome features, and adaption mechanisms that allow thrive highly saline conditions largely unknown. Here, we show predominant brines from marine solar salterns sulfate-type salt lakes with inte...

The present work was concerned with the isolation and screening of tyrosinase enzyme producing marine actinobacteria from marine salterns soil. It was also focussed on testing the antioxidant and haemolytic activity of the isolated marine actinobacteria. A total of 17 actinobacterial isolates were isolated from salterns soil samples from Kothapattanam, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh. They were screened...

Hypersaline environments encompass aquatic and terrestrial habitats. While only a limited number of studies on the microbial diversity of saline soils have been carried out, hypersaline lakes and marine salterns have been thoroughly investigated, resulting in an aquatic-biased knowledge about life in hypersaline environments. To improve our understanding of the assemblage of microbes thriving i...