Salinibacter ruber
Salinibacter ruber | |
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Scientific classification | |
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Phylum: | Rhodothermota |
Class: | Rhodothermia |
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Species: | S. ruber
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Binomial name | |
Salinibacter ruber Antón et al., 2002
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Salinibacter ruber is an
Habitat
Salinibacter ruber was found in saltern crystallizer ponds in Alicante and Mallorca, Spain in 2002 by Antón et al. This environment has very high salt concentrations, and Salinibacter ruber itself cannot grow at below 15% salt concentration, with an ideal concentration between 20 and 30%.[1] It has also been found in pink lakes in Australia.[2][3]
This bacterium is notable for its halophilic lifestyle, a trait exhibited primarily by members of Archaea. In general, bacteria do not play a large role in microbial communities of hypersaline brines at or approaching NaCl saturation. However, with the discovery of S. ruber, this belief was challenged. It was found that S. ruber made up from 5% to 25% of the total prokaryotic community of the Spanish saltern ponds.[1]
Taxonomy
Salinibacter ruber is most closely related to the genus
Characteristics
In a 2015 study conducted by researchers led by
Salinibacter ruber produces a
Footnotes
- ^ Conflicting reports of percentage.
References
- ^ PMID 11931160. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
- ^ a b c Salleh, Anna (4 January 2022). "Why Australia has so many pink lakes and why some of them are losing their colour". ABC News. ABC Science. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ a b c Cassella, Carly (13 December 2016). "How an Australian lake turned bubble-gum pink". Australian Geographic. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "Here's the Real Reason Why Australia Has Bubblegum Pink Lakes". Discovery. 24 December 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "Why is Pink Lake on Middle Island, off the coast of Esperance, pink?". Australia's Golden Outback. Includes extract from Australian Geographic article. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
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Further reading
- Mongodin, E. F. (2005). "The genome of Salinibacter ruber: Convergence and gene exchange among hyperhalophilic bacteria and archaea". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (50): 18147–18152. PMID 16330755.
- Brochier-Armanet, Celine; Antón, Josefa; Lucio, Marianna; Peña, Arantxa; Cifuentes, Ana; Brito-Echeverría, Jocelyn; Moritz, Franco; Tziotis, Dimitrios; López, Cristina; Urdiain, Mercedes; Schmitt-Kopplin, Philippe; Rosselló-Móra, Ramon (2013). "High Metabolomic Microdiversity within Co-Occurring Isolates of the Extremely Halophilic Bacterium Salinibacter ruber". PLOS ONE. 8 (5): e64701. PMID 23741374.
- Oren, Aharon; Mana, Lili (2003). "Sugar metabolism in the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruber". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 223 (1): 83–87. PMID 12799004.
- Sher, Jonathan; Elevi, Rahel; Mana, Lily; Oren, Aharon (2004). "Glycerol metabolism in the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruber". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 232 (2): 211–215. PMID 15033241.
- Pašić, Lejla; Rodriguez-Mueller, Beltran; Martin-Cuadrado, Ana-Belen; Mira, Alex; Rohwer, Forest; Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco (2009). "Metagenomic islands of hyperhalophiles: the case of Salinibacter ruber". BMC Genomics. 10 (1): 570. PMID 19951421.