Definitions
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- noun An organism that requires a saline environment.
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- noun biology an
organism thatlives andthrives in anenvironment of highsalinity , oftenrequiring such an environment; a form ofextremophile
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- noun archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival
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Examples
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The bacteria that grew in severely P-depleted and As-enriched conditions were identified as members of a halophile salt-loving family already known to accumulate intracellular As. When deprived of P, they grew slowly and looked bloated because they were full of vacuoles, cellular organelles that manage waste and grow larger and more numerous when cells are under stress.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Arsenic and Odd Lace Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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The bacteria that grew in severely P-depleted and As-enriched conditions were identified as members of a halophile salt-loving family already known to accumulate intracellular As.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Arsenic and Odd Lace Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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The bacteria that grew in severely P-depleted and As-enriched conditions were identified as members of a halophile salt-loving family already known to accumulate intracellular As. When deprived of P, they grew slowly and looked bloated because they were full of vacuoles, cellular organelles that manage waste and grow larger and more numerous when cells are under stress.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Arsenic and Odd Lace Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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Large salt depressions with basaltic rock buttes (Yeroyulanduz Lake) harbor a number of halophile vertebrate and invertebrate species, many of them rare or endemic, such as gecko Bunopus tuberculatus and scorpion Kraepelinia palpator.
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A large area is also occupied by sand and halophile landscapes.
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This article provides evidence for identification of halophilic microbes as the major cause of fish spoilage, and is one of the earliest publications in the field of halophile microbiology.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Priya DasSarma 2010
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But what really caught my eye was a collection of halophile living in pure salt crystals.
Strobist 2009
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As far as they know, no one had yet made a quality close-up of halophile colonies embedded in salt crystals.
Strobist 2009
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They would indeed be pretty happy in such a crystal, as the very definition of a halophile is an organism that can thrive in a high-salinity environment.
Strobist 2009
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I finitely them that it is an anthropomorphous paedophile patchwork of colourful unconcern, and is sinuously halophile by the antineoplastic.
Rational Review 2009
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