Adaptation to Life at High Salt Concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya

Salt is an essential requirement of life. Oren (2002), published by Kluwer Academic Publishers as volume 5 of “Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology” (COLE), and “Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of Hypersaline Environments” edited by A.