Haloarchaea are a class of the Euryarchaeota, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
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11 Facts About Haloarchaea
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Haloarchaea are found mainly in hypersaline lakes and solar salterns.
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Haloarchaea have adapted to use glycerol as a carbon and energy source in catabolic processes, which is often present in high salt environments due to Dunaliella species that produce glycerol in large quantities.
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Haloarchaea are often considered pleomorphic, or able to take on a range of shapes—even within a single species.
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Haloarchaea have been proposed as a kind of life that could live on Mars; since the Martian atmosphere has a pressure below the triple point of water, freshwater species would have no habitat on the Martian surface.
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Haloarchaea has been proposed to help meet the high demand of carotenoids by pharmaceutical companies due to how easy it can be grown in a lab.
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Genes in Haloarchaea can be manipulated in order to produce various strands of carotenoids, further helping meet pharmaceutical companies needs.
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Haloarchaea is present within the human gut, mostly predominant in the gut of people who live in Korea.
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Haloarchaea are most abundant in Koreans guts rather than methanogens due to their saltier diets.
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Haloarchaea have been proposed that certain types can be used to make biodegradable plastics, which could help decrease plastic pollution.
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Haloarchaea are able to produce polyhydroxyalkanote, polyhydroxybutyrate and polyhydroxyvalerate, when exposed to certain conditions.
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