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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 70, Issue 3, Pages 1608-1616Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1608-1616.2004
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The salinity responses of cyanobacteria, anoxygenic phototrophs, sulfate reducers, and methanogens from the laminated endoevaporitic community in the solar salterns of Eilat, Israel, were studied in situ with oxygen microelectrodes and in the laboratory in slurries. The optimum salinity for the sulfate reduction rate in sediment slurries was between 100 and 120parts per thousand, and sulfate reduction was strongly inhibited at an in situ salinity of 215parts per thousand.. Nevertheless, sulfate reduction was an important respiratory process in the crust, and reoxidation of formed sulfide accounted for a major part of the oxygen budget. Methanogens were well adapted to the in situ salinity but contributed little to the anaerobic mineralization in the crust. In slurries with a salinity of 180parts per thousand or less, methanogens were inhibited by increased activity of sulfate-reducing bacteria. 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 120parts per thousand.
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