characterized by excessive salt in a saline solution
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Hypersaline environments around the world are dominated by archaea and their viruses.
Nina S. Atanasova, Tatiana A. Demina, Andrius Buivydas, Dennis H. Bamford, Hanna M.Oksanen 2015, 'Archaeal Viruses Multiply: Temporal Screening in a Solar Saltern', Viruseshttp://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/7/4/1902. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Excess salt concentrations in sea water are said to be hypersaline environments.
R. Sugumar1, G. Ramanathan1*, K. Rajarathinam2, A. Jeevarathinam1, D. Abirami1 andM. Bhoothapandi1 2011, 'Diversity of Saltpan Marine Cyanobacteria from Cape Comorin Coast of Tamilnadu', Journal of Phytologyhttps://updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/jp/article/view/2289. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Life can persist under severe osmotic stress and low water activity in hypersaline environments.
Alexandra Pontefract, Alexandra Pontefract, Ting F. Zhu, Virginia K. Walker, HolliHepburn, Clarissa Lui, Maria T. Zuber, Gary Ruvkun, Gary Ruvkun, Christopher E. Carr,Christopher E. Carr 2017, 'Microbial Diversity in a Hypersaline Sulfate Lake: A Terrestrial Analog of AncientMars', Frontiers in Microbiologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01819/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Furthermore, most hypersaline environments, as topographical minima, are natural collectors of cellular debris.
House Christopher H, Oren Aharon, Spear John R, Rhodes Matthew E 2011, 'Differences in lateral gene transfer in hypersaline versus thermal environments',BMC Evolutionary Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/199. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Hypersaline environments pose major challenges to their microbial residents.
Lea Weinisch, Steffen Kühner, Robin Roth, Maria Grimm, Tamara Roth, Daili J A Netz,Antonio J Pierik, Sabine Filker 2018, 'Identification of osmoadaptive strategies in the halophile, heterotrophic ciliateSchmidingerothrix salinarum.', PLoS Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5794333?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Pachypleurosaurs are often found in sediments formed in shallow, hypersaline carbonate-platform environments.
Čerňanský Andrej, Klein Nicole, Soták Ján, Olšavský Mário, Šurka Juraj, Herich Pavel 2018, 'A Middle Triassic pachypleurosaur (Diapsida: Eosauropterygia) from a restricted carbonateramp in the Western Carpathians (Gutenstein Formation, Fatric Unit): paleogeographicimplications', Geologica Carpathicahttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/geoca.2018.69.issue-1/geoca-2018-0001/geoca-2018-0001.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Carbonate production and hypersaline facies characterize the marginal part of the basins.
Holcová Katarína 2017, 'Calcareous nannoplankton and foraminiferal response to global Oligocene and Mioceneclimatic oscillations: a case study from the Western Carpathian segment of the CentralParatethys', Geologica Carpathicahttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/geoca.2017.68.issue-3/geoca-2017-0016/geoca-2017-0016.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Many hypersaline environments are often contaminated with petroleum compounds.
Babu Zhereppa Fathepure 2014, 'Recent studies in microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in hypersaline environments',Frontiers in Microbiologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00173/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Hypersaline surface water triggered downwelling circulation and mixing of water masses.
Holcová Katarína 2017, 'Calcareous nannoplankton and foraminiferal response to global Oligocene and Mioceneclimatic oscillations: a case study from the Western Carpathian segment of the CentralParatethys', Geologica Carpathicahttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/geoca.2017.68.issue-3/geoca-2017-0016/geoca-2017-0016.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)