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With the exception of certain organisms that thrive in salt called halophiles, high levels of salt can poison just about any microbe, even ones your body wants to keep around.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2024
The extreme halophiles grow in salty habitats along the ocean borders and in inland waters such as the Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea.
From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2013
Although the extreme halophiles have been studied by microbiologists for a long time, they have recently become particularly interesting for two reasons.
From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2013
It was also known that the cell membrane of the extreme halophiles and of the thermoacidophiles is composed of unusual lipids.
From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2013
In addition the extreme halophiles have a comparatively simple photosynthetic mechanism based not on chlorophyll but on a membrane-bound pigment, bacterial rhodopsin, that is remarkably like one of the visual pigments.
From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2013
