Seminal advances were made through probing the biochemistry, physiology, genetics and evolution of methanogens, extreme halophiles and thermoacidophiles. The nature of archaea as extremophiles can ...

FriedhelmPfeiffer, the research group’s bioinformatics expert, created adatabase for halophile (Greek "salt-lovers") archaea, called HaloLex(see link below). Using the database, genetic and ...

The most saline lake on Earth (more than 10 times saltier than sea water) is a harsh environment where only salt-loving microbes from the Archaea domain, known as extreme halophiles, are able to ...

Halophiles are found in all three domains of life: Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya. A few halophiles have been investigated in depth and have become laboratory models for the study of the adaptation ...