Seminar: Viruses of Hypersaline Environments

LIVE SEMINAR: 27 May 2025 16:00 CEST Diverse microorganisms adapted to life at high salt concentrations are found in globally distributed hypersaline environments that comprise ~50% of continental waters. The abundance of prokaryotes increases with salinity, reaching values even higher than 108 cells per milliliter at salinities above 25%. These microbial communities are frequently dominated by members of the domain Archaea (both haloarchaea from the Euryachaeaota and nanohaloarchaea from the...