Is there a common water-activity limit for the three domains of life?
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 5 - Biological Sciences
- Output identifier
- 2896
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/ismej.2014.219
- Title of journal
- The ISME Journal
- Article number
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- First page
- 1333
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 1751-7362
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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23
- Research group(s)
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A - Ecology and Environmental Microbiology
- Citation count
- 124
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- The original idea came from McGenity’s observation that the water-activity limit of growth for many ex-tremely halophilic Archaea and Bacteria was unknown, because most studies decreased the water activity of growth media with NaCl, yet many extreme halophiles grow rapidly in saturated NaCl. At the University of Essex, McGenity and Hallsworth designed experiments to measure growth at lower water activities using judiciously selected solutes and employing strains acquired or isolated by McGenity and team. McGenity and his Masters’ students (Sahay, Neuenkirchen) performed key experiments; McGenity collated and analysed key data from the literature; and wrote large parts of the paper.
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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