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- Title
The Santa Pola saltern as a model for studying the microbiota of hypersaline environments.
- Authors
Ventosa, Antonio; Fernández, Ana; León, María; Sánchez-Porro, Cristina; Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco
- Abstract
Multi-pond salterns constitute an excellent model for the study of the microbial diversity and ecology of hypersaline environments, showing a wide range of salt concentrations, from seawater to salt saturation. Accumulated studies on the Santa Pola (Alicante, Spain) multi-pond solar saltern during the last 35 years include culture-dependent and culture-independent molecular methods and metagenomics more recently. These approaches have permitted to determine in depth the microbial diversity of the ponds with intermediate salinities (from 10 % salts) up to salt saturation, with haloarchaea and bacteria as the two main dominant groups. In this review, we describe the main results obtained using the different methodologies, the most relevant contributions for understanding the ecology of these extreme environments and the future perspectives for such studies.
- Subjects
ALICANTE (Spain); HALOBACTERIUM; HALOPHILIC microorganisms; MICROBIAL ecology; MICROBIAL diversity; SEAWATER salinity; MICROBIOLOGY of extreme environments
- Publication
Extremophiles, 2014, Vol 18, Issue 5, p811
- ISSN
1431-0651
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00792-014-0681-6