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Taxonomy of the family Halobacteriaceae: a paradigm for changing concepts in prokaryote systematicsAharon Oren
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 62:263-71. 2012....- Thermodynamic limits to microbial life at high salt concentrationsAharon Oren
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Life Sciences, and Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Environ Microbiol 13:1908-23. 2011..8, and occurrence of methane oxidation in the anaerobic layers of Big Soda Lake and Mono Lake... 
Differences in lateral gene transfer in hypersaline versus thermal environmentsMatthew E Rhodes
Penn State Astrobiology Research Center and Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
BMC Evol Biol 11:199. 2011..Theoretically, transformative events can occur between any two species provided that the DNA of one enters the habitat of the other. Two categories of microorganisms that are well-known for LGT are the thermophiles and halophiles...- Nomenclature and taxonomy of halophilic archaea--comments on the proposal by DasSarma and DasSarma for nomenclatural changes within the order HalobacterialesAharon Oren
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences and the Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:2245-6. 2008.... - Industrial and environmental applications of halophilic microorganismsAharon Oren
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Environ Technol 31:825-34. 2010.... 
Mycosporines and mycosporine-like amino acids: UV protectants or multipurpose secondary metabolites?Aharon Oren
The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
FEMS Microbiol Lett 269:1-10. 2007..Here, the evidence for these additional roles of MAAs as 'multipurpose' secondary metabolites is reviewed, with special emphasis on their functions in the microbial world...- Emended descriptions of genera of the family HalobacteriaceaeAharon Oren
Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59:637-42. 2009.... - Fungal life in the dead seaAharon Oren
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
Prog Mol Subcell Biol 53:115-32. 2012.... - Cyanobacterial systematics and nomenclature as featured in the International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy / International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology / International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary MicrobiologyAharon Oren
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Life Sciences, Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 61:10-5. 2011..The fact that on average these papers have been highly cited shows that IJSEM and its predecessors have been an excellent framework for publications on cyanobacteria and should remain so in the future... - Biogeography of thermophilic cyanobacteria: insights from the Zerka Ma'in hot springs (Jordan)Danny Ionescu
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 72:103-13. 2010.... - Salisaeta longa gen. nov., sp. nov., a red, halophilic member of the BacteroidetesNatalie Vaisman
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59:2571-4. 2009..nov., sp. nov. The type strain of Salisaeta longa is strain S4-4(T) (=DSM 21114(T) =CECT 7354(T))... - Dihydroxyacetone metabolism in Salinibacter ruber and in Haloquadratum walsbyiRahel Elevi Bardavid
The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
Extremophiles 12:125-31. 2008.... - Halomicrobium mukohataei gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended description of Halomicrobium mukohataeiAharon Oren
The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52:1831-5. 2002..A full description of the isolate, proposed as a member of a new genus, Halomicrobium, as Halomicrobium mukohataei comb. nov., is presented. The type strain is strain arg-2T (= JCM 9738T = DSM 12286T = ATCC 700874T = NCIMB 13541T)... - Sensitivity of Haloquadratum and Salinibacter to antibiotics and other inhibitors: implications for the assessment of the contribution of Archaea and Bacteria to heterotrophic activities in hypersaline environmentsRahel Elevi Bardavid
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 63:309-15. 2008..Inhibition by chloramphenicol and taurocholate increased with increasing salt concentration. Erythromycin and taurocholate proved most valuable to differentiate between archaeal and bacterial activities in saltern brines... - Haloplanus natans gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic, gas-vacuolate archaeon isolated from Dead Sea-Red Sea water mixtures in experimental outdoor pondsRahel Elevi Bardavid
The Institute of Life Sciences and the Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:780-3. 2007..The name Haloplanus natans gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed for this novel organism. The type strain of Haloplanus natans is RE-101(T) (=DSM 17983(T)=JCM 14081(T))... - Acid-shifted isoelectric point profiles of the proteins in a hypersaline microbial mat: an adaptation to life at high salt concentrations?Rahel Elevi Bardavid
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Extremophiles 16:787-92. 2012.... - Prokaryote diversity and taxonomy: current status and future challengesAharon Oren
The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:623-38. 2004..A better coverage of the prokaryote diversity on Earth depends on such innovative approaches, combined with appropriate funding... - Interrelationships between Dunaliella and halophilic prokaryotes in saltern crystallizer pondsRahel Elevi Bardavid
The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
Extremophiles 12:5-14. 2008.... - Intracellular ion and organic solute concentrations of the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruberAharon Oren
Division of Microbial and Molecular Ecology, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Extremophiles 6:491-8. 2002.... - Mycosporine-2-glycine is the major mycosporine-like amino acid in a unicellular cyanobacterium (Euhalothece sp.) isolated from a gypsum crust in a hypersaline saltern pondLaura Kedar
Division of Microbial and Molecular Ecology, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
FEMS Microbiol Lett 208:233-7. 2002..This is the first report of mycosporine-2-glycine in cyanobacteria... - Archaea in the Gulf of AqabaDanny Ionescu
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 69:425-38. 2009..Incorporation studies of radiolabeled leucine and bicarbonate in the presence of different inhibitors suggest that the archaeal community participates in autotrophic CO(2) uptake and contributes little to the heterotrophic activity... - Global network of specific virus-host interactions in hypersaline environmentsNina S Atanasova
Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 5, Helsinki, Finland
Environ Microbiol 14:426-40. 2012..It suggests that hypersaline environments worldwide function like a single habitat... - Amino acid composition of bulk protein and salt relationships of selected enzymes of Salinibacter ruber, an extremely halophilic bacteriumAharon Oren
Division of Microbial and Molecular Ecology, Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Extremophiles 6:217-23. 2002..The results presented show that Salinibacter enzymes are adapted to function in the presence of high salt concentrations... - How to be moderately halophilic with broad salt tolerance: clues from the genome of Chromohalobacter salexigensAharon Oren
The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Extremophiles 9:275-9. 2005..The evolution of highly salt-tolerant prokaryotes may have depended on an increase in acidity of the proteins located external to the cytoplasmic membrane, enabling effective transport of nutrients into the cell... - Sugar metabolism in the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruberAharon Oren
Division of Microbial and Molecular Ecology, The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
FEMS Microbiol Lett 223:83-7. 2003..However, activity of 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate aldolase could not be detected in extracts of Salinibacter cells, whether or not grown in the presence of glucose... - The amino acid composition of proteins from anaerobic halophilic bacteria of the order HalanaerobialesRahel Elevi Bardavid
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
Extremophiles 16:567-72. 2012.... - Glycerol metabolism in the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruberJonathan Sher
The Institute of Life Sciences, and The Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
FEMS Microbiol Lett 232:211-5. 2004..6 to 2.8 M KCl. No significant activity of NAD-dependent glycerol dehydrogenase was found. It is suggested that Salinibacter may use glycerol as one of its principal substrates in its habitat, the saltern crystallizer ponds... - A proposal for further integration of the cyanobacteria under the Bacteriological CodeAharon Oren
The Institute of Life Sciences and the Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:1895-902. 2004.... - Glycine betaine is the main organic osmotic solute in a stratified microbial community in a hypersaline evaporitic gypsum crustAharon Oren
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
Extremophiles 17:445-51. 2013..Presence of glycine betaine produced by the photoautotrophic members of the community, therefore, may relieve the heterotrophs from the need to synthesize other compounds at a high-energy cost... - Heterocyst-specific transcription of NsiR1, a non-coding RNA encoded in a tandem array of direct repeats in cyanobacteriaDanny Ionescu
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Life Sciences, and Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
J Mol Biol 398:177-88. 2010..NsiR1 is the first known bacterial non-coding RNA that is specifically upregulated in response to nitrogen step-down... - Gas vesicles isolated from Halobacterium cells by lysis in hypotonic solution are structurally weakenedAharon Oren
The Institute of Life Sciences and the Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
FEMS Microbiol Lett 252:337-41. 2005.... - Bacterial communities in the 'petola' microbial mat from the Sečovlje salterns (Slovenia)Rok Tkavc
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 75:48-62. 2011..This study provides the first molecular insight into the microbiology of the petola, and it represents an important contribution towards understanding the geomicrobiological cycles of the traditional Sečovlje saltern... - Salinibacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, extremely halophilic member of the Bacteria from saltern crystallizer pondsJosefa Antón
Departamento de Fisiologia, Genética y Microbiología, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52:485-91. 2002..Isolation of the organism now allows formal description of a novel genus and species, for which we propose the name Salinibacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain is strain M31T (= DSM 13855T = CECT 5946T)... - Halosarcina pallida gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon from a low-salt, sulfide-rich springKristen N Savage
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:856-60. 2008..nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Halosarcina pallida is BZ256T (=KCTC 4017T =JCM 14848T)... - Marinobacter pelagius sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacteriumXue Wei Xu
Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem and Biogeochemistry, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, People s Republic of China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:637-40. 2008..Therefore, it is proposed that strain HS225(T) represents a novel species of the genus Marinobacter, for which the name Marinobacter pelagius sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HS225(T) (=CGMCC 1.6775(T) =JCM 14804(T))... - Characterization of alcohol dehydrogenase from the haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonisYi Cao
College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, People s Republic of China
Extremophiles 12:471-6. 2008..0. Zn2+ significantly inhibited activity. The Km value for acetaldehyde was higher than that for ethanol. It was concluded that the physiological role of this enzyme is likely the catalysis of the oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde... - Community composition of a hypersaline endoevaporitic microbial matKetil Bernt Sørensen
Department of Geology and Geophysics Post 701, 1680 East west Rd, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:7352-65. 2005..Detected archaeal groups included organisms affiliated with the Methanosarcinales, the Halobacteriales, and uncultured groups of Euryarchaeota... - Haloferax sulfurifontis sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon isolated from a sulfide- and sulfur-rich springMostafa S Elshahed
Department of Botany and Microbiology, and Institute of Energy and the Environment, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:2275-9. 2004..A novel species, Haloferax sulfurifontis sp. nov., is therefore proposed to accommodate the strain. The type strain is M6(T) (=JCM 12327(T)=CCM 7217(T)=DSM 16227(T)=CIP 108334(T))... - Novel sulfonolipid in the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruberAngela Corcelli
Dipartimento di Biochimica Medica e Biologia Medica, Universita degli Studi di Bari, IPCF CR, Bari, Italy
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:6678-85. 2004..This study suggests that this novel sulfonolipid may be used as a chemotaxonomic marker for the detection of Salinibacter within the halophilic microbial community in saltern crystallizer ponds and other hypersaline environments... - Survey of archaeal diversity reveals an abundance of halophilic Archaea in a low-salt, sulfide- and sulfur-rich springMostafa S Elshahed
Department of Botany and Microbiology and Institute for Energy and the Environment, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:2230-9. 2004..This study demonstrates that members of the Halobacteriales are not restricted to their typical high-salt habitats, and we propose a role for the Halobacteriales in sulfur reduction in natural ecosystems... - Taxonomic study of Halorubrum distributum and proposal of Halorubrum terrestre sp. novAntonio Ventosa
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:389-92. 2004..nov. The type strain of this novel species is 4p(T) (=VKM B-1739(T)=JCM 10247(T)). The DNA G+C content of this novel species is 64.2-64.9 mol% (64.4 mol% for the type strain)... - Salinity responses of benthic microbial communities in a solar saltern (Eilat, Israel)Ketil Bernt Sørensen
Danish Center for Earth System Science, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, University of Odense, Odense, Denmark
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:1608-16. 2004..Unicellular and filamentous cyanobacteria metabolized at near-optimum rates at the in situ salinity, whereas the optimum salinity for anoxygenic phototrophs was between 100 and 120 per thousand... - Occurrence of two different glutamate dehydrogenase activities in the halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruberMaria Jose Bonete
Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Alicante, 03080, Alicante, Spain
FEMS Microbiol Lett 226:181-6. 2003..A low-molecular-mass cytoplasmic fraction was found to be a highly effective activator of GDHII in the presence of high NaCl concentrations... - Metabolism of chloride in halophilic prokaryotesVolker Muller
Section Microbiology, Department Biology I, LMU Munchen, Maria Ward Strasse 1a, 80638 Munchen, Germany
Extremophiles 7:261-6. 2003..It is thus becoming increasingly clear that chloride has specific functions in haloadaptation in different groups of halophilic microorganisms... - New C(40)-carotenoid acyl glycoside as principal carotenoid in Salinibacter ruber, an extremely halophilic eubacteriumBjart Frode Lutnaes
Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
J Nat Prod 65:1340-3. 2002.... - Haloterrigena saccharevitans sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from Xin-Jiang, ChinaXue Wei Xu
College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P R China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:2539-42. 2005..It is therefore proposed that strain AB14T represents a novel species, for which the name Haloterrigena saccharevitans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AB14T (=AS 1.3730T=JCM 12889T)... - Structure of euhalothece-362, a novel red-shifted mycosporine-like amino acid, from a halophilic cyanobacterium (Euhalothece sp.)Marc Volkmann
Geomicrobiology, Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Lett 258:50-4. 2006.... - Genomic survey of sequence features for ultraviolet tolerance in Haloarchaea (family Halobacteriaceae)Peng Zhou
Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Genomics 90:103-9. 2007.... - Natronorubrum sulfidifaciens sp. nov., an extremely haloalkaliphilic archaeon isolated from Aiding salt lake in Xin-Jiang, ChinaHeng Lin Cui
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People s Republic of China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:738-40. 2007..It was concluded that strain AD2(T) represents a novel species of the genus Natronorubrum, for which the name Natronorubrum sulfidifaciens sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AD2(T) (=CGMCC 1.6307(T)=JCM 14089(T))... - Haloferax larsenii sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from a solar salternXue Wei Xu
College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, People s Republic of China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:717-20. 2007..Therefore the isolates should be classified as members of a novel species, for which the name Haloferax larsenii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is ZJ206(T) (=CGMCC 1.5347(T)=JCM 13917(T))... - Haladaptatus paucihalophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon isolated from a low-salt, sulfide-rich springKristen N Savage
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73071, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:19-24. 2007..nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is DX253(T) (=JCM 13897(T)=DSM 18195(T)=ATCC BAA-1313(T)=KCTC 4006(T))... - Culture-dependent study of microbial diversity of Lake ChakaMike Dyall-Smith
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:7427; author reply 7427. 2006 - Prokaryote taxonomy online: challenges aheadAharon Oren
Nature 419:15. 2002 - Valid publication of names of prokaryotes according to the rules of nomenclature: past history and current practiceBrian J Tindall
DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstrasse 7b, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:2715-20. 2006.... - Antimicrobial properties of Dead Sea black mineral mudZeev Ma'or
Dead Sea Research Center, 86910 Dead Sea, Israel
Int J Dermatol 45:504-11. 2006.... - Presence of two novel cardiolipins in the halophilic archaeal community in the crystallizer brines from the salterns of Margherita di Savoia (Italy) and Eilat (Israel)Veronica M T Lattanzio
Dipartimento di Fisiologia Generale ed Ambientale, Universita di Bari, Via Amendola 165 A, 70126 Bari, Italy
Extremophiles 6:437-44. 2002..A sulfated diglycosyl diether was the major glycolipid detected in the biomass of both salterns... - Recommended minimal standards for describing new taxa of the family HalomonadaceaeDavid R Arahal
Spanish Type Culture Collection CECT and Department of Microbiology and Ecology, University of Valencia, 46100 Valencia, Spain
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:2436-46. 2007..The proposals presented here have been endorsed by the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Halomonadaceae...