| 1. | Some hypersaline lakes are a habitat to numerous families of halophiles.
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| 2. | These are the halophiles, thermophiles, alkaliphiles, and acidophiles.
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| 3. | The usually accepted lower limit was 0.755 for halophiles.
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| 4. | Halophiles are a type of extremophiles that have adapted to extreme salt solutions.
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| 5. | These are nearly exclusively hyperthermophiles or extreme halophiles.
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| 6. | Halophiles may use a variety of energy sources.
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| 7. | If it is too salty, only extreme halophiles could survive in that environment.
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| 8. | This colony size is rather large for halophiles.
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| 9. | It was named in honor of Professor Helge Larsen, who pioneered research on halophiles.
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| 10. | Anaerobic halophiles include phototrophic, fermentative, sulfate-reducing, homoacetogenic, and methanogenic species.
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