halobacteria

In the late 1980s a research group in Britain discovered that a group of salt-tolerant microbes called halobacteria could become trapped within rock salt and survive for months at a time in their tiny, briny homes.

The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

In the late 1980s a research group in Britain discovered that a group of salt-tolerant microbes called halobacteria could become trapped within rock salt and survive for months at a time in their tiny, briny homes.

The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

Again, they discovered tiny, fluid-filled cavities within the rock salt, and within a small fraction of these cavities 6 out of 350 they discovered viable halobacteria that could be cultured in the laboratory after a time span of more than 200 million years.4

The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

Again, they discovered tiny, fluid-filled cavities within the rock salt, and within a small fraction of these cavities 6 out of 350 they discovered viable halobacteria that could be cultured in the laboratory after a time span of more than 200 million years.4

The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

Walter Stockenius, Dieter Oesterhelt had discovered bacteriorhodopsin in halobacteria and later proposed that it acts as a lightdriven proton pump in the framework of Peter Mitchell's chemiosmotic theory.

Hartmut Michel - Autobiography 1988

Reitmeier H, Oesterhelt D (1976) Biosynthesis of the purple membrane of halobacteria.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kenia Whitehead et al. 2009

The halobacteria, which inhabit salt lakes, are one of the most ancient forms of life on Earth.

Pravda.Ru 2009

"Looking at Mars halobacteria and also _Deinococcus radiodurans_.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004