Extremophilic microbial communities on photovoltaic panel surfaces: a two‐year study by Kristie Tanner, Esther Molina‐Menor, Adriel Latorre‐Pérez, Àngela Vidal‐Verdú, Cristina Vilanova, Juli Peretó, Manuel Porcar

“…This is the first time a long‐term study of the colonization process of solar panels has been performed, and our results reveal that species richness and biodiversity exhibit seasonal fluctuations and that there is a trend towards an increase or decrease of specialist (solar panel‐adapted) and generalist taxa, respectively. On the former, extremophilic bacterial genera Deinococcus, Hymenobacter and Roseomonas and fungal Neocatenulostroma, Symmetrospora and Sporobolomyces tended to dominate the biocenosis; whereas Lactobacillus sp or Stemphyllium exhibited a decreasing trend. …”
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Recent advances in understanding extremophiles [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by James A Coker

“…The organisms that live and thrive in these “inhospitable” environments are known by the name extremophiles and are found in all Domains of Life. Despite our general lack of knowledge about them, they have already assisted humans in many ways and still have much more to give. …”
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High-up: a remote reservoir of microbial extremophiles at Central Andean Wetlands by Virginia Helena Albarracín, Daniel eKurth, Omar Federico Ordoñez, Carolina eBelfiore, Eduardo eLuccini, Graciela eSalum, Ruben ePiacentini, Maria Eugenia Farias

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Metabolic reconstruction of sulfur assimilation in the extremophile <it>Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans </it>based on genome analysis by Jedlicki Eugenia, Veloso Felipe, Valdés Jorge, Holmes David

“…Metabolic modeling provides an important preliminary step in understanding the unusual physiology of this extremophile especially given the severe difficulties involved in its genetic manipulation and biochemical analysis.…”
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Exploring Extremophiles from Bulgaria: Biodiversity, Biopolymer Synthesis, Functional Properties, Applications by Songül Yaşar Yıldız, Nadja Radchenkova

Subjects: “…extremophiles…”
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Expression of an extremophilic xylanase in Nicotiana benthamiana and its use for the production of prebiotic xylooligosaccharides by David Talens-Perales, María Nicolau-Sanus, Julio Polaina, José-Antonio Daròs

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Habitat Characteristics, Distribution, and Abundance of <i>Cicindelidia haemorrhagica</i> (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in Yellowstone National Park by Kelly A. Willemssens, John L. Bowley, Laissa Cavallini, Erik Oberg, Robert K. D. Peterson, Leon G. Higley

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Exopolysaccharides from Marine and Marine Extremophilic Bacteria: Structures, Properties, Ecological Roles and Applications by Angela Casillo, Rosa Lanzetta, Michelangelo Parrilli, Maria Michela Corsaro

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A high-quality chromosome-level Eutrema salsugineum genome, an extremophile plant model by Meng Xiao, Guoqian Hao, Xinyi Guo, Landi Feng, Hao Lin, Wenjie Yang, Yanyu Chen, Kexin Zhao, Ling Xiang, Xinyao Jiang, Dong Mei, Quanjun Hu

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Shedding light on the composition of extreme microbial dark matter: alternative approaches for culturing extremophiles by Júnia Schultz, Júnia Schultz, Flúvio Modolon, Flúvio Modolon, Raquel Silva Peixoto, Raquel Silva Peixoto, Alexandre Soares Rosado, Alexandre Soares Rosado

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Monomeric prefusion structure of an extremophile gamete fusogen and stepwise formation of the postfusion trimeric state by Juan Feng, Xianchi Dong, Yang Su, Chafen Lu, Timothy A. Springer

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Extremophilic bacteria restrict the growth of Macrophomina phaseolina by combined secretion of polyamines and lytic enzymes by Ana P. Santos, Luciana Nieva Muratore, Anna Solé-Gil, María E. Farías, Alejandro Ferrando, Miguel A. Blázquez, Carolina Belfiore

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Use of a Novel Extremophilic Xylanase for an Environmentally Friendly Industrial Bleaching of Kraft Pulps by Nazaré Almeida, Valérie Meyer, Auphélia Burnet, Jeremy Boucher, David Talens-Perales, Susana Pereira, Petri Ihalainen, Thomas Levée, Julio Polaina, Michel Petit-Conil, Susana Camarero, Paula Pinto

Subjects: “…extremophilic xylanase…”
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Tokorhabditis n. gen. (Rhabditida, Rhabditidae), a comparative nematode model for extremophilic living by Natsumi Kanzaki, Tatsuya Yamashita, James Siho Lee, Pei-Yin Shih, Erik J. Ragsdale, Ryoji Shinya

“…Abstract Life in extreme environments is typically studied as a physiological problem, although the existence of extremophilic animals suggests that developmental and behavioral traits might also be adaptive in such environments. …”
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Prospects for the use of endophytic and extremophilic microorganisms in the fight against phytopathogens of agricultural crops (review) by E. R. Faskhutdinova, Yu. V. Golubtsova, O. A. Neverova, T. A. Larichev, N. N. Khoroshkina

“…The positive effect associated with the use of extremophilic microorganisms is associated with the universality of their use, namely the ability to maintain efficiency in various soil and climatic conditions.…”
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INDIGO - INtegrated data warehouse of microbial genomes with examples from the red sea extremophiles. by Intikhab Alam, André Antunes, Allan Anthony Kamau, Wail Ba Alawi, Manal Kalkatawi, Ulrich Stingl, Vladimir B Bajic

“…Currently, INDIGO contains information from Salinisphaera shabanensis, Haloplasma contractile, and Halorhabdus tiamatea - extremophiles isolated from deep-sea anoxic brine lakes of the Red Sea. …”
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Ascorbate peroxidase plays an important role in photoacclimation in the extremophilic red alga Cyanidiococcus yangmingshanensis by Han-Yi Fu, Ming-Wei Wang

“…Ascorbic acid was previously identified as an important protectant against high light stress in Galdieria partita under mixotrophic conditions, yet whether ascorbic acid and its related enzymatic reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging system was crucial in photoacclimation for photoautotrophic cyanidiophytes was unclear.MethodsThe significance of ascorbic acid and related ROS scavenging and antioxidant regenerating enzymes in photoacclimation in the extremophilic red alga Cyanidiococcus yangmingshanensis was investigated by measuring the cellular content of ascorbic acid and the activities of ascorbate-related enzymes.Results and discussionAccumulation of ascorbic acid and activation of the ascorbate-related enzymatic ROS scavenging system characterized the photoacclimation response after cells were transferred from a low light condition at 20 μmol photons m–2 s–1 to various light conditions in the range from 0 to 1000 μmol photons m–2 s–1. …”
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Biochemical properties of ectoine hydroxylases from extremophiles and their wider taxonomic distribution among microorganisms. by Nils Widderich, Astrid Höppner, Marco Pittelkow, Johann Heider, Sander H J Smits, Erhard Bremer

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Derivative of Extremophilic 50S Ribosomal Protein L35Ae as an Alternative Protein Scaffold. by Anna V Lomonosova, Andrei B Ulitin, Alexei S Kazakov, Tajib A Mirzabekov, Eugene A Permyakov, Sergei E Permyakov

“…Given the superiority of ABPs, the last two decades have witnessed development of dozens of alternative protein scaffolds (APSs) for the design of ABPs. Proteins from extremophiles with their high structural stability are especially favorable for APS design. …”
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Properties and Applications of Extremozymes from Deep-Sea Extremophilic Microorganisms: A Mini Review by Min Jin, Yingbao Gai, Xun Guo, Yanping Hou, Runying Zeng

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