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halophile

[′hal·ə‚fīl]
(biology)
An organism that requires high salt concentrations for growth and maintenance.
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Saraf, Halophiles: Biodiversity and Sustainable Exploitation, Volume 6 in the Sustainable Development and Biodiversity Series, K.
Extremophiles can be classified into thermophiles, psychrophiles, acidophiles, alkaliphiles, halophiles, and others [6].
"The data we are generating are much more in favor of a protein-first view in a halophile environment."
Halophiles Single-celled organisms without a nucleus that live, grow, and reproduce in environments with high salt concentrations and that lack peptidoglycans in their cell walls.
Microalga Dunaliella salina is a type of halophile pink microalgae especially found in sea salt fields.
Sur nouvel Hemiptere halophile. Bulletin du Museum D'Histoire Naturelle Paris 4: 172-177.
Halophile Organism that grows well in environments with high salt concentrations.
another halophile isolated from the same salt springs area, and RS6GR, a variant or mutant of RS6GS that grows normally in a glucose-containing medium.
Routes under riverbeds, which are both underground and interstitial, are sites of exchanges between halophile species of coastal marine origin and freshwater species.
DasSarma, "An archaeal chromosomal autonomously replicating sequence element from an extreme halophile, Halobacterium sp.
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