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From: Biodiversity of poly-extremophilic Bacteria: Does combining the extremes of high salt, alkaline pH and elevated temperature approach a physico-chemical boundary for life?

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Clustering of poly-extremophiles relative to other extreme halophiles. Representation of extremely halophilic Bacteria for which both additionally-considered growth conditions (pH and temperature) approach or exceed thermophilic and alkaliphilic levels. The optima of the discussed recently isolated poly-extremophiles cluster in the upper range for each criterion, well-separated from other representative microorganisms. The z-axis color coding depicts the temperature optimum of each bacterium. Species represented: 1. Natranaerobius 'jonesii', 2. Natronovirga wadinatrunensis, 3. Natranaerobius thermophilus, 4. Natranaerobius 'grantii', 5. Natranaerobius truperi, 6. Halorhodospira halochloris, 7. Dichotomicrobium thermohalophilum, 8. Halanaerobacter salinarius, 9. Salinibacter ruber

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