Journal
EXTREMOPHILES
Volume 18, Issue 5, Pages 811-824Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-014-0681-6
Keywords
Hypersaline habitats; Salterns; Santa Pola; Haloarchaea; Halophilic bacteria; Microbial ecology; Metagenomics
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2013-46941-P, CGL2010-19303, CGL2009-12651-C02-01, BIO2011-12879-E]
- MAGYK [BIO2008-02444]
- MICROGEN [CDS2009-00006]
- National Science Foundation [DEB-0919290]
- European Commission [311975]
- Generalitat Valenciana [DIMEGEN PROMETEO/2010/089, ACOMP/2009/155]
- Junta de Andalucia [P10-CVI-6226]
- FEDER funds
- Plan Andaluz de Investigacion
- Junta de Andalucia
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Multi-pond salterns constitute an excellent model for the study of the microbial diversity and ecology of hypersaline environments, showing a wide range of salt concentrations, from seawater to salt saturation. Accumulated studies on the Santa Pola (Alicante, Spain) multi-pond solar saltern during the last 35 years include culture-dependent and culture-independent molecular methods and metagenomics more recently. These approaches have permitted to determine in depth the microbial diversity of the ponds with intermediate salinities (from 10 % salts) up to salt saturation, with haloarchaea and bacteria as the two main dominant groups. In this review, we describe the main results obtained using the different methodologies, the most relevant contributions for understanding the ecology of these extreme environments and the future perspectives for such studies.
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