Microbial Diversity Of Great Salt Lake / Bonnie K. Baxter, Carol D. Litchfield, Kevin Sowers, Jack D. Griffith, Priya Arora Dassarma And Shiladitya Dassarma -- Microbial Communities In The Dead Sea -- Past, Present And Future / Aharon Oren, Ittai Gavrieli, Jonah Gavrieli, Marco Kohen, Joseph Lati And Mordehay Aharoni -- Microscopic Examination Of Microbial Communities Along A Salinity Gradient In Saltern Evaportation Ponds: A 'halophilic Safari' / Ahron Oren -- The Microbial Diversity Of A Solar Saltern On San Francisco Bay / Carol D. Litchfield, Masoumeh Sikaroodi And Patrick M. Gillivet -- Diversity Of Microbial Communities: The Case Of Solar Saltern / Carlos Pedros-alio --^ Isolation Of Viable Haloarchaea From Ancient Salt Deposits And Application Of Fluorescent Stains For In Situ Detection Of Halophiles In Hypersaline Environmental Samples And Model Fluid Inclusions / Stafan Leuko, Andrea Legat, Gergiu Fendrihan, Heidi Wieland, Christian Radax, Claudia Gruber, Marion Pfaffenhuemer, Gerhard Weidler And Helga Stan-lotter / Hydrocarbon Degradation Under Hypersaline Conditions. Some Facts, Some Experiments And Many Open Questions / Heiko Patzelt -- The Relevance Of Halophiles And Other Extremophiles To Martian And Extraterrestrial Environments / Joseph Seckbach -- Halophiles: A Terrestrial Analog For Life In Brines On Mars -- Halophiles On Mars / Rocco L. Mancinelli -- Comparative Genomic Survey Of Information Transfer Systems In Two Diverse Extremely Halophilic Archaea, Halobacterium Sp. Strain Nrc-1 And Haloarcula Marismortui / Brian R. Berquist, Jeetendra Soneja And Shiladitya Dassarma --^ Walsby's Square Archaeon; It's Hip To Be Square But Even More Hip To Be Culturable / Henk Bolhuis -- Gene Regulation And The Initiation Of Translation In Halophilic Archaea / Felicitas Pfeifer, Peter Zimmermann, Sandra Scheuch And Simone Sartorius-neef -- Protein Translation, Targeting And Translocation In Haloferax Volcanii / Jerry Eichler, Abriela Ring, Vered Irihimovitch, Tovit Lichi, Irit Tozik And Zvia Konrad -- Enzymes Of Halophilic Archaea. Recent Findings On Ureases And Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinases / Toru Mizuki, Ron Usami, Masayuki Kamo, Masaru Tanokura And Masahiro Kamekura -- Osmoadaptation In Methanogenic Archaea: Recent Insights From A Genomic Perspective / Katharina Pfluger, Heidi Wieland And Volker Muller. Salinibacter Ruber: Genomics And Biogeography / Josefa Anton, Arantxa Pena, Maria Valens, Fernando Santos, Frank-oliver Glockner, Margarete Bauer, Joaquin Dopazo, Javier Herrero, Ramon Rossello -- Mora And Rudolf Amann -- What We Can Deduce About Metabolism In The Moderate Halophile Chromohalobacter Salexigens From Its Genomic Sequence / Laszlo N. Csonka, Kathleen O'connor, Frank Larimer, Paul Richardson, Alla Lapidus, Adam D. Ewing, Bradley W. Goodner And Aharon Oren -- K+ Transport And Its Role For Osmoregulation In A Halophilic Member Of The Bacteria Domain: Characterization Of The K+ Uptake Systems From Halomonas Elongata / Hans-jorg Kunte -- The Chloride Regulon Of Halobacillus Halophilus: A Novel Regulatory Network For Salt Perception And Signal Transduction In Bactera / Volker Muller And Stephan H. Saum --^ Biosynthesis Of The Compatible Solute Mannosylglycerate From Hyperthermophiles To Mesophiles. Genes, Enzymes And Evolutionary Perspective / Milton S. Da Costa And Nuno Empadinhas -- Genes And Enzymes Of Ectoine Biosynthesis In The Haloalkaliphilic Obligate Methanotroph Methylomicrobium Alcaliphilum 20z / Alexander S. Reshetnikov, Valentina N. Khmelenina, Ildar I. Mustakhimov, Yana V. Ryzhmanova And Yuri A. Trotsenko -- Halophilic Archaea And Bacteria As A Source Of Extracellular Hydrolytic Enzymes / Antonio Ventosa, Cristina Sanchez-porro, Asar Martin And Encarnacion Mellado -- Biopolyester Production: Halophilic Microoganisms As An Attractive Source / Jorge Quillaguaman, Bo Mattiasson And Rajni Hatti-kaul -- Relation Of Halotolerance To Human Pathogenicity In The Fungal Tree Of Life: An Overview Of Ecology And Evolution Under Stress / G. Sybren De Hoog, Polona Zalar, Bert Gerritss Van Den Ende And Nina Gunde-cimerman --^ Halotolerant And Halophilic Fungi From Coastal Environments In The Arctics / Nina Gunde-cimerman, Lorena Butinar, Silva Sonjak, Martina Turk, Viktor Ursic, Polona Zalar And Ana Plemenitas -- Halotolerant And Halophilic Fungi And Their Extrolite Production / Jens C. Frisvad -- Introducing Debaryomyces Hansenii, A Salt-loving Yeast / Jose Ramos -- Cellular Responses In The Halophilic Black Yeat Hortaea Werneckii To High Environmental Salinity / Ana Plemenitas And Nina Gunde-cimerman -- Halotolerance And Lichen Symbioses / Martin Grube And Juliane Blaha -- A Century Of Dunaliella Research: 1905-2005 / Aharon Oren -- Molecular Determinants Of Protein Halotolerance: Structural And Functional Studies Of The Extremely Salt Tolerant Carbonic Anhydrases From Dunaliella Salina / Lakshmane Premkumar, Michal Volkovitsky, Irena Gokhman, Joel L. Sussman And Ada Zamir -- Heterotrophic Protozoa From Hypersaline Environments / Gwen Hauer And Andrew Rogerson --^ Heterotrophic Flagellates In Hypersaline Waters / Byung C. Cho -- Haloviruses And Their Host / Mike L. Dyall-smith, David G. Burns, Helen M. Camakaris, Peter H. Janssen, Brendan E. Russ And Kate Porter. Edited By Nina Gunde-cimerman, Aharon Oren And Ana Plemenitaš. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.