Dear Henk et al,
Halobacterium spp. and other bacteria beginning with Halo- grow at high salt
concentrations, up to and including the saturated salt brines found in salt
lakes and salt pans along the ocean shore - also in salted fish products.
It would be very interesting if networked communities of organisms were more
salt tolerant when in a community network (or some kind of networked complex
adaptive structure - containing least calculative units that embody a logic
circuit which provides increased capabilities - for example they might be able
to crystalize salt within microenvironments at a lower the nucleation
threshold and thereby increase water activity in the aqueous phase - this
would come under the heading of geosymbiosis - i.e. a symbiosis between the
proliferaiton of salt crystals and the proliferation of the bacteria).
Regards - Doug Caldwell
Henk Bolhuis wrote:
> I found in high slat concentration (>25% NaCl) cells growing in standing in
> liquid medim in small colonies...apparently connected by smallbridges...it
> looks like neural network....but than made up of hundreds of small
> microbes....
>
> does anyone know of halophiles that can do this ??
> i will not be able to do the 16S the comming 2 weeks....
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Henk Bolhuis
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