Molecular cloning, expression, and biochemical characterization of a novel cold-active α-amylase from Bacillus sp. dsh19-1 - Shaohua Dou; Naiyu Chi; Xinshang Zhou; Qingfang Zhang; Fei Pang; Zhilong Xiu (Extremophiles, 2018)

Tepidibaculum saccharolyticum gen. nov., sp. nov. a moderately thermophilic, anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium isolated from a terrestrial hot spring - G. B. Slobodkina; R. V. Baslerov; N. K. Kostryukova; E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya; A. I. Slobodkin (Extremophiles, 2018)

Life from the ashes: survival of dry bacterial spores after very high temperature exposure - Lynda Beladjal; Tom Gheysens; James S. Clegg; Mohamed Amar; Johan Mertens (Extremophiles, 2018)

Cryptic dispersal of Cyanidiophytina (Rhodophyta) in non-acidic environments from Turkey - Manuela Iovinella; Ayla Eren; Gabriele Pinto; Antonino Pollio; Seth J. Davis; Paola Cennamo; Claudia Ciniglia (Extremophiles, 2018)

Production and characterization of exopolysaccharides by Geobacillus thermodenitrificans ArzA-6 and Geobacillus toebii ArzA-8 strains isolated from an Armenian geothermal spring - Hovik Panosyan; Paola Di Donato; Annarita Poli; Barbara Nicolaus (Extremophiles, 2018)

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic community structure affected by the presence of an acid mine drainage from an abandoned gold mine - José O. Bonilla; Daniel G. Kurth; Fabricio D. Cid; José H. Ulacco; Raúl A. Gil; Liliana B. Villegas (Extremophiles, 2018)

Correction to: Microbial community differentiation between active and inactive sulfide chimneys of the Kolumbo submarine volcano, Hellenic Volcanic Arc - Christos A. Christakis; Paraskevi N. Polymenakou; Manolis Mandalakis; Paraskevi Nomikou; Jon Bent Kristoffersen; Danai Lampridou; Georgios Kotoulas; Antonios Magoulas (Extremophiles, 2018)

Native xylose-inducible promoter expands the genetic tools for the biomass-degrading, extremely thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii - Amanda M. Williams-Rhaesa; Nanaakua K. Awuku; Gina L. Lipscomb; Farris L. Poole; Gabriel M. Rubinstein; Jonathan M. Conway; Robert M. Kelly; Michael W. W. Adams (Extremophiles, 2018)

Marine-influenced microbial communities inhabit terrestrial hot springs on a remote island volcano - Lucy C. Stewart; Valerie K. Stucker; Matthew B. Stott; Cornel E. J. de Ronde (Extremophiles, 2018)

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and its potential application - Shuang Zhang; Lei Yan; Weijia Xing; Peng Chen; Yu Zhang; Weidong Wang (Extremophiles, 2018)

Microbiome analysis and bacterial isolation from Lejía Lake soil in Atacama Desert - Dinka Mandakovic; Jonathan Maldonado; Rodrigo Pulgar; Pablo Cabrera; Alexis Gaete; Viviana Urtuvia; Michael Seeger; Verónica Cambiazo; Mauricio González (Extremophiles, 2018)

The unique GH5 cellulase member in the extreme halotolerant fungus Aspergillus glaucus CCHA is an endoglucanase with multiple tolerance to salt, alkali and heat: prospects for straw degradation applications - Zhengqun Li; Xue Pei; Ziyu Zhang; Yi Wei; Yanyue Song; Lina Chen; Shouan Liu; Shi-Hong Zhang (Extremophiles, 2018)

Effect of salinity on diazotrophic activity and microbial composition of phototrophic communities from Bitter-1 soda lake (Kulunda Steppe, Russia) - Zorigto Namsaraev; Olga Samylina; Marina Sukhacheva; Gennadii Borisenko; Dimitry Y. Sorokin; Tatiana Tourova (Extremophiles, 2018)

Robust photosystem I activity by Cyanothece sp. (Cyanobacteria) and its role in prolonged bloom persistence in lake St Lucia, South Africa - Schalk J. du Plooy; Akash Anandraj; Sarah White; Renzo Perissinotto; Derek R. du Preez (Extremophiles, 2018)

Heavy metal tolerance in marine strains of Yarrowia lipolytica - Ashok Bankar; Smita Zinjarde; Manisha Shinde; Gita Gopalghare; Ameeta Ravikumar (Extremophiles, 2018)

Biochemical and structural characterization of a novel cold-active esterase-like protein from the psychrophilic yeast Glaciozyma antarctica - Noor Haza Fazlin Hashim; Nor Muhammad Mahadi; Rosli Md Illias; Shevin Rizal Feroz; Farah Diba Abu Bakar; Abdul Munir Abdul Murad (Extremophiles, 2018)

Cold active pectinase, amylase and protease production by yeast isolates obtained from environmental samples - Ceren Daskaya-Dikmen; Funda Karbancioglu-Guler; Beraat Ozcelik (Extremophiles, 2018)

A series of new E. coli–Thermococcus shuttle vectors compatible with previously existing vectors - Ryan Catchpole; Aurore Gorlas; Jacques Oberto; Patrick Forterre (Extremophiles, 2018)

The Sulfolobus solfataricus RecQ-like DNA helicase Hel112 inhibits the NurA/HerA complex exonuclease activity - Mariarosaria De Falco; Federica Massa; Mosè Rossi; Mariarita De Felice (Extremophiles, 2018)

YcfDRM is a thermophilic oxygen-dependent ribosomal protein uL16 oxygenase - Rok Sekirnik; Sarah E. Wilkins; Jacob Bush; Hanna Tarhonskaya; Martin Münzel; Aayan Hussein; Emily Flashman; Shabaz Mohammed; Michael A. McDonough; Christoph Loenarz; Christopher J. Schofield (Extremophiles, 2018)

Identification and characterization of a novel cold-tolerant extracellular protease from Planococcus sp. CGMCC 8088 - Kun Chen; Qingshan Mo; Huan Liu; Feiyan Yuan; Haonan Chai; Fuping Lu; Huitu Zhang (Extremophiles, 2018)

Draft genome sequences of bacteria isolated from the Deschampsia antarctica phyllosphere - Fernanda P. Cid; Fumito Maruyama; Kazunori Murase; Steffen P. Graether; Giovanni Larama; Leon A. Bravo; Milko A. Jorquera (Extremophiles, 2018)

Unexpected fungal communities in the Rehai thermal springs of Tengchong influenced by abiotic factors - Kai-Hui Liu; Xiao-Wei Ding; Nimaichand Salam; Bo Zhang; Xiao-Fei Tang; Baiwan Deng; Wen-Jun Li (Extremophiles, 2018)

Functional dissection of the three N-terminal general secretory pathway domains and the Walker motifs of the traffic ATPase PilF from Thermus thermophilus - Kerstin Kruse; Ralf Salzer; Friederike Joos; Beate Averhoff (Extremophiles, 2018)

Halobacterium salinarum storage and rehydration after spray drying and optimization of the processes for preservation of carotenoids - Sergei V. Kalenov; Mariia G. Gordienko; Ekaterina D. Murzina; Daniil Y. Poberezhniy; Dmitry V. Baurin; Natalia E. Suzina; Alexander N. Morozov; Liubov M. Yakubovich; Alexey A. Belov; Victor I. Panfilov; Oksana V. Yarovaya; Michail M. Il’in; et al. (Extremophiles, 2018)

Biofilm formation and potential for iron cycling in serpentinization-influenced groundwater of the Zambales and Coast Range ophiolites - D’Arcy R. Meyer-Dombard; Caitlin P. Casar; Alexander G. Simon; Dawn Cardace; Matthew O. Schrenk; Carlo A. Arcilla (Extremophiles, 2018)

The genes and enzymes of sucrose metabolism in moderately thermophilic methanotroph Methylocaldum szegediense O12 - Sergey Y. But; Natalia P. Solntseva; Svetlana V. Egorova; Ildar I. Mustakhimov; Valentina N. Khmelenina; Alexander Reshetnikov; Yuri A. Trotsenko (Extremophiles, 2018)

The vertical distribution of prokaryotes in the surface sediment of Jiaolong cold seep at the northern South China Sea - Yuzhi Wu; Jian-Wen Qiu; Pei-Yuan Qian; Yong Wang (Extremophiles, 2018)

Thermostable marine microbial proteases for industrial applications: scopes and risks - Noora Barzkar; Ahmad Homaei; Roohullah Hemmati; Seema Patel (Extremophiles, 2018)

Genome sequence and description of Haloferax massiliense sp. nov., a new halophilic archaeon isolated from the human gut - Saber Khelaifia; Aurelia Caputo; Claudia Andrieu; Frederique Cadoret; Nicholas Armstrong; Caroline Michelle; Jean-Christophe Lagier; Felix Djossou; Pierre-Edouard Fournier; Didier Raoult (Extremophiles, 2018)

Shifts of methanogenic communities in response to permafrost thaw results in rising methane emissions and soil property changes - Shiping Wei; Hongpeng Cui; Youhai Zhu; Zhenquan Lu; Shouji Pang; Shuai Zhang; Hailiang Dong; Xin Su (Extremophiles, 2018)

Crystal structure of the NADP+ and tartrate-bound complex of l-serine 3-dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Kazunari Yoneda; Haruhiko Sakuraba; Tomohiro Araki; Toshihisa Ohshima (Extremophiles, 2018)

Microbial communities and their predicted metabolic functions in a desiccating acid salt lake - Elena Zaikova; Kathleen C. Benison; Melanie R. Mormile; Sarah Stewart Johnson (Extremophiles, 2018)

Effects of nicotine on the biosynthesis of carotenoids in halophilic Archaea (class Halobacteria): an HPLC and Raman spectroscopy study - Aharon Oren; Joseph Hirschberg; Varda Mann; Jan Jehlička (Extremophiles, 2018)

Identification of a functional toxin–antitoxin system located in the genomic island PYG1 of piezophilic hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus yayanosii - Zhen Li; Qinghao Song; Yinzhao Wang; Xiang Xiao; Jun Xu (Extremophiles, 2018)

Cultivable fungi present in Antarctic soils: taxonomy, phylogeny, diversity, and bioprospecting of antiparasitic and herbicidal metabolites - Eldon C. Q. Gomes; Valéria M. Godinho; Débora A. S. Silva; Maria T. R. de Paula; Gislaine A. Vitoreli; Carlos L. Zani; Tânia M. A. Alves; Policarpo A. S. Junior; Silvane M. F. Murta; Emerson C. Barbosa; Jaquelline G. Oliveira; Fabio S. Oliveira; et al. (Extremophiles, 2018)

Description of a cryptic thermophilic (pro)phage, CBP1 from Caldibacillus debilis strain GB1 - Scott Wushke; Zimo Jin; Victor Spicer; Xiang Li Zhang; Brian Fristensky; Oleg V. Krokhin; David B. Levin; Richard Sparling (Extremophiles, 2018)

Phytoene production utilizing the isoprenoid biosynthesis capacity of Thermococcus kodakarensis - Tsubasa Fuke; Takaaki Sato; Savyasachee Jha; Myra L. Tansengco; Haruyuki Atomi (Extremophiles, 2018)

Purification and characterization of a novel organic solvent-tolerant and cold-adapted lipase from Psychrobacter sp. ZY124 - Yue Zhang; Fangling Ji; Jingyun Wang; Zhongji Pu; Bo Jiang; Yongming Bao (Extremophiles, 2018)

A cold-adapted endoglucanase from camel rumen with high catalytic activity at moderate and low temperatures: an anomaly of truly cold-adapted evolution in a mesophilic environment - Kamran Khalili Ghadikolaei; Javad Gharechahi; Kamahldin Haghbeen; Kambiz Akbari Noghabi; Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh; Hossein Shahbani Zahiri (Extremophiles, 2018)

Growth of Leptospirillum ferriphilum in sulfur medium in co-culture with Acidithiobacillus caldus - Sarah L. Smith; D. Barrie Johnson (Extremophiles, 2018)

Cloning, expression and characterization of the esterase estUT1 from Ureibacillus thermosphaericus which belongs to a new lipase family XVIII - Yuliya V. Samoylova; Ksenia N. Sorokina; Margarita V. Romanenko; Valentin N. Parmon (Extremophiles, 2018)

Comparison of the DING protein from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus with human phosphate-binding protein and Pseudomonas fluorescence DING counterparts - Elena Porzio; Anna De Maio; Teresa Ricciardi; Carmela Mistretta; Giuseppe Manco; Maria Rosaria Faraone-Mennella (Extremophiles, 2018)

Abiostress resistance and cellulose degradation abilities of haloalkaliphilic fungi: applications for saline–alkaline remediation - Yi Wei; Shi-Hong Zhang (Extremophiles, 2018)

Isolation and characterization from solar salterns of North Algeria of a haloarchaeon producing a new halocin - Souhila Mazguene; Mosè Rossi; Marta Gogliettino; Gianna Palmieri; Ennio Cocca; Sara Mirino; Nacera Imadalou-Idres; Said Benallaoua (Extremophiles, 2018)

Corrosive extracellular polysaccharides of the rock-inhabiting model fungus Knufia petricola - Romy Breitenbach; Dorothee Silbernagl; Jörg Toepel; Heinz Sturm; William J. Broughton; Guilherme L. Sassaki; Anna A. Gorbushina (Extremophiles, 2018)

Enhancement of gene expression in Escherichia coli and characterization of highly stable ATP-dependent glucokinase from Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Tahira Bibi; Musadiq Ali; Naeem Rashid; Majida Atta Muhammad; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2018)

Genome sequencing and heterologous expression of antiporters reveal alkaline response mechanisms of Halomonas alkalicola - Lei Zhai; Jiuyan Xie; Yafang Lin; Kun Cheng; Lijiang Wang; Feng Yue; Jingyan Guo; Jiquan Liu; Su Yao (Extremophiles, 2018)

Benthic phototrophic community from Kiran soda lake, south-eastern Siberia - Ekaterina I. Burganskaya; Irina A. Bryantseva; Vasil A. Gaisin; Denis S. Grouzdev; Maria S. Rysina; Darima D. Barkhutova; Roman V. Baslerov; Vladimir M. Gorlenko; Boris B. Kuznetsov (Extremophiles, 2018)

Optimization of the production of an extracellular and thermostable amylolytic enzyme by Thermus thermophilus HB8 and basic characterization - Mounia Akassou; Denis Groleau (Extremophiles, 2018)

Changes in bacterial and archaeal communities during the concentration of brine at the graduation towers in Ciechocinek spa (Poland) - Agnieszka Kalwasińska; Edyta Deja-Sikora; Aleksandra Burkowska-But; Attila Szabó; Támas Felföldi; Przemysław Kosobucki; Arkadiusz Krawiec; Maciej Walczak (Extremophiles, 2018)

Fusion with the cold-active esterase facilitates autotransporter-based surface display of the 10th human fibronectin domain in Escherichia coli - L. E. Petrovskaya; A. V. Zlobinov; L. N. Shingarova; E. F. Boldyreva; S. Sh. Gapizov; K. A. Novototskaya-Vlasova; E. M. Rivkina; D. A. Dolgikh; M. P. Kirpichnikov (Extremophiles, 2018)

Acknowledgment to reviewers 2017 (Extremophiles, 2018)

Biochemical characterization of a thermostable endomannanase/endoglucanase from Dictyoglomus turgidum - Francesca Anna Fusco; Raffaele Ronca; Gabriella Fiorentino; Emilia Pedone; Patrizia Contursi; Simonetta Bartolucci; Danila Limauro (Extremophiles, 2018)

Pcal_0632, a phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Iram Aziz; Naeem Rashid; Raza Ashraf; Masood Ahmed Siddiqui; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2018)

A novel trifunctional, family GH10 enzyme from Acidothermus cellulolyticus 11B, exhibiting endo-xylanase, arabinofuranosidase and acetyl xylan esterase activities - Saher Shahid; Razia Tajwar; Muhammad Waheed Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2018)

Thermostable and highly specific l-aspartate oxidase from Thermococcus litoralis DSM 5473: cloning, overexpression, and enzymological properties - Tsubasa Washio; Tadao Oikawa (Extremophiles, 2018)

Exploration, antifungal and antiaflatoxigenic activity of halophilic bacteria communities from saline soils of Howze-Soltan playa in Iran - Samaneh Jafari; Seyed-Soheil Aghaei; Hossein Afifi-Sabet; Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi; Zahra Jahanshiri; Mohammadhassan Gholami-Shabani; Seyedahmad Shafiei-Darabi; Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh (Extremophiles, 2018)

Involvement of cyclodipeptides in the competition of bacterial communities in the oligotrophic Churince aquatic system of Cuatro Ciénegas Basin dominated by Gammaproteobacteria - Enrique Martínez-Carranza; Gabriel Y. Ponce-Soto; Alma L. Díaz-Pérez; Erasmo Cadenas; Valeria Souza; Jesús Campos-García (Extremophiles, 2018)

Involvement of C-terminal amino acids of a hyperthermophilic serine racemase in its thermostability - Masahito Murakami; Makoto Saito; Hirokazu Yokobori; Katsushi Nishimura; Minoru Tanigawa; Yoko Nagata (Extremophiles, 2018)

Carbohydrate active enzyme domains from extreme thermophiles: components of a modular toolbox for lignocellulose degradation - Jonathan Botha; Eshchar Mizrachi; Alexander A. Myburg; Don A. Cowan (Extremophiles, 2018)

An anti-HBV anthraquinone from aciduric fungus Penicillium sp. OUCMDZ-4736 under low pH stress - Yanzheng Jin; Shidong Qin; Hai Gao; Guoliang Zhu; Wei Wang; Weiming Zhu; Yi Wang (Extremophiles, 2018)

High altitude, hyper-arid soils of the Central-Andes harbor mega-diverse communities of actinobacteria - Alan T. Bull; Hamidah Idris; Roy Sanderson; Juan Asenjo; Barbara Andrews; Michael Goodfellow (Extremophiles, 2018)

Variation with depth of the abundance, diversity and pigmentation of culturable bacteria in a deep ice core from the Yuzhufeng Glacier, Tibetan Plateau - Liang Shen; Yongqin Liu; Ninglian Wang; Nianzhi Jiao; Baiqing Xu; Xiaobo Liu (Extremophiles, 2018)

Microbial community differentiation between active and inactive sulfide chimneys of the Kolumbo submarine volcano, Hellenic Volcanic Arc - Christos A. Christakis; Paraskevi N. Polymenakou; Manolis Mandalakis; Paraskevi Nomikou; Jon Bent Kristoffersen; Danai Lampridou; Georgios Kotoulas; Antonios Magoulas (Extremophiles, 2018)

Palladium bionanoparticles production from acidic Pd(II) solutions and spent catalyst leachate using acidophilic Fe(III)-reducing bacteria - Naoko Okibe; Daisuke Nakayama; Takahiro Matsumoto (Extremophiles, 2017)

Pcal_1311, an alcohol dehydrogenase homologue from Pyrobaculum calidifontis, displays NADH-dependent high aldehyde reductase activity - Raza Ashraf; Naeem Rashid; Tamotsu Kanai; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2017)

Halophilic viruses with varying biochemical and biophysical properties are amenable to purification with asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation - Katri Eskelin; Mirka Lampi; Florian Meier; Evelin Moldenhauer; Dennis H. Bamford; Hanna M. Oksanen (Extremophiles, 2017)

Biomineralisation of carbonate and sulphate by the halophilic bacterium Halomonas maura at different manganese concentrations - Almudena Rivadeneyra; Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez; Gabriela R. Portela; Daniel J. Martin-Ramos; Jesús Gonzalez-Lopez; María A. Rivadeneyra (Extremophiles, 2017)

Effect of environmental parameters on biodiversity of the fungal component in lithic Antarctic communities - Laura Selbmann; Silvano Onofri; Claudia Coleine; Pietro Buzzini; Fabiana Canini; Laura Zucconi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Isolation and complete genome sequence of Halorientalis hydrocarbonoclasticus sp. nov., a hydrocarbon-degrading haloarchaeon - Dahe Zhao; Sumit Kumar; Jian Zhou; Rui Wang; Ming Li; Hua Xiang (Extremophiles, 2017)

100 kGy gamma-affected microbial communities within the ancient Arctic permafrost under simulated Martian conditions - Vladimir S. Cheptsov; Elena A. Vorobyova; Natalia A. Manucharova; Mikhail V. Gorlenko; Anatoli K. Pavlov; Maria A. Vdovina; Vladimir N. Lomasov; Sergey A. Bulat (Extremophiles, 2017)

Production of the copolymer poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) with varied composition using different nitrogen sources with Haloferax mediterranei - Anna Ferre-Guell; James Winterburn (Extremophiles, 2017)

Expression and characterization of a new heat-stable endo-type alginate lyase from deep-sea bacterium Flammeovirga sp. NJ-04 - Benwei Zhu; Fang Ni; Yun Sun; Zhong Yao (Extremophiles, 2017)

Prokaryotic assemblages in the maritime Antarctic Lake Limnopolar (Byers Peninsula, South Shetland Islands) - M. Papale; C. Rizzo; J. A. Villescusa; C. Rochera; A. Camacho; L. Michaud; A. Lo Giudice (Extremophiles, 2017)

Development of a new host–vector system for colour selection of cloned DNA inserts using a newly designed β-galactosidase gene containing multiple cloning sites in Thermus thermophilus HB27 - Atsushi Fujita; Yoshio Misumi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Genomic insights into temperature-dependent transcriptional responses of Kosmotoga olearia, a deep-biosphere bacterium that can grow from 20 to 79 °C - Stephen M. J. Pollo; Abigail A. Adebusuyi; Timothy J. Straub; Julia M. Foght; Olga Zhaxybayeva; Camilla L. Nesbø (Extremophiles, 2017)

Delignification and detoxification of peanut shell bio-waste using an extremely halophilic laccase from an Aquisalibacillus elongatus isolate - Rezvan Rezaie; Shahla Rezaei; Nasrin Jafari; Hamid Forootanfar; Mohammad Reza Khoshayand; Mohammad Ali Faramarzi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Taxonomy, phylogeny and ecology of cultivable fungi present in seawater gradients across the Northern Antarctica Peninsula - Vívian N. Gonçalves; Gislaine A. Vitoreli; Graciéle C. A. de Menezes; Carlos R. B. Mendes; Eduardo R. Secchi; Carlos A. Rosa; Luiz H. Rosa (Extremophiles, 2017)

Avoidance of protein oxidation correlates with the desiccation and radiation resistance of hot and cold desert strains of the cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis - Claudia Fagliarone; Claudia Mosca; Ilaria Ubaldi; Cyprien Verseux; Mickael Baqué; Annick Wilmotte; Daniela Billi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Wallemia peruviensis sp. nov., a new xerophilic fungus from an agricultural setting in South America - Jorge R. Díaz-Valderrama; Hai D. T. Nguyen; M. Catherine Aime (Extremophiles, 2017)

Carotenoids from the extreme halophilic archaeon Haloterrigena turkmenica: identification and antioxidant activity - Giuseppe Squillaci; Roberta Parrella; Virginia Carbone; Paola Minasi; Francesco La Cara; Alessandra Morana (Extremophiles, 2017)

Cloning, overexpression, and characterization of a thermostable nitrilase from an Antarctic Pyrococcus sp. - Ma Ángeles Cabrera; Jenny M. Blamey (Extremophiles, 2017)

Characterization of a cold-adapted DNA photolyase from C. psychrerythraea 34H - Sudipto Munshi; Ananthi Rajamoorthi; Robert J. Stanley (Extremophiles, 2017)

Functional characterization of hormone sensitive-like lipase from Bacillus halodurans: synthesis and recovery of pNP-laurate with high yields - Ashima Dua; Rani Gupta (Extremophiles, 2017)

Gene regulation of two ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductases by the redox-responsive regulator SurR in Thermococcus kodakarensis - Ryota Hidese; Keita Yamashita; Kohei Kawazuma; Tamotsu Kanai; Haruyuki Atomi; Tadayuki Imanaka; Shinsuke Fujiwara (Extremophiles, 2017)

Structure and mechanisms of viral transcription factors in archaea - Carol Sheppard; Finn Werner (Extremophiles, 2017)

Characterization of a cold-active bacterium isolated from the South Pole “Ice Tunnel” - Michael T. Madigan; Megan L. Kempher; Kelly S. Bender; Paul Sullivan; W. Matthew Sattley; Alice C. Dohnalkova; Samantha B. Joye (Extremophiles, 2017)

Antarctic rocks from continental Antarctica as source of potential human opportunistic fungi - Vívian N. Gonçalves; Fabio S. Oliveira; Camila R. Carvalho; Carlos E. G. R. Schaefer; Carlos A. Rosa; Luiz H. Rosa (Extremophiles, 2017)

Establishment of a markerless gene deletion system in Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM 3043 - Ya-Hui Shao; Li-Zhong Guo; Hao Yu; Bai-Suo Zhao; Wei-Dong Lu (Extremophiles, 2017)

Molecular cloning and expression analysis of major intrinsic protein gene in Chlamydomonas sp. ICE-L from Antarctica - Lulu Li; Meiling An; Changfeng Qu; Zhou Zheng; Yibin Wang; Fangming Liu; Yingying He; Xiaodong He; Jinlai Miao (Extremophiles, 2017)

Biocontrol activity of a cold-adapted yeast from Tibet against gray mold in cherry tomato and its action mechanism - Hao Hu; Michael E. Wisniewski; Ahmed Abdelfattah; Xiaodong Zheng (Extremophiles, 2017)

Progeny production in the periplasm of Thermosipho globiformans - Tomohiko Kuwabara; Kensuke Igarashi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Adaptations of archaeal and bacterial membranes to variations in temperature, pH and pressure - Melvin F. Siliakus; John van der Oost; Servé W. M. Kengen (Extremophiles, 2017)

Aspergillus atacamensis and A. salisburgensis: two new halophilic species from hypersaline/arid habitats with a phialosimplex-like morphology - Livia Martinelli; Polona Zalar; Nina Gunde-Cimerman; Armando Azua-Bustos; Katja Sterflinger; Guadalupe Piñar (Extremophiles, 2017)

Thermal adaptation strategies of the extremophile bacterium Thermus filiformis based on multi-omics analysis - F. Mandelli; M. B. Couger; D. A. A. Paixão; C. B. Machado; C. M. Carnielli; J. A. Aricetti; I. Polikarpov; R. Prade; C. Caldana; A. F. Paes Leme; A. Z. Mercadante; D. M. Riaño-Pachón; et al. (Extremophiles, 2017)

Diversity of bacteria and archaea from two shallow marine hydrothermal vents from Vulcano Island - Garabed Antranikian; Marcel Suleiman; Christian Schäfers; Michael W. W. Adams; Simonetta Bartolucci; Jenny M. Blamey; Nils-Kåre Birkeland; Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya; Milton S. da Costa; Don Cowan; Michael Danson; Patrick Forterre; et al. (Extremophiles, 2017)

Membrane lipids and soluble sugars dynamics of the alkaliphilic fungus Sodiomyces tronii in response to ambient pH - Sofiya A. Bondarenko; Elena A. Ianutsevich; Olga A. Danilova; Alexey A. Grum-Grzhimaylo; Ekaterina R. Kotlova; Olga V. Kamzolkina; Elena N. Bilanenko; Vera M. Tereshina (Extremophiles, 2017)

In-depth characterization of bacterial and archaeal communities present in the abandoned Kettara pyrrhotite mine tailings (Morocco) - Odile Bruneel; N. Mghazli; R. Hakkou; I. Dahmani; A. Filali Maltouf; L. Sbabou (Extremophiles, 2017)

NADP+-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase from a psychrophilic bacterium, Psychromonas marina - Ryo Hirota; Kango Tsubouchi; Yasuhiro Takada (Extremophiles, 2017)

SGNH hydrolase-type esterase domain containing Cbes-AcXE2: a novel and thermostable acetyl xylan esterase from Caldicellulosiruptor bescii - Surabhi Soni; Sneha S. Sathe; Annamma A. Odaneth; Arvind M. Lali; Sanjeev K. Chandrayan (Extremophiles, 2017)

Characterization of extracellular membrane vesicles of an Antarctic bacterium, Shewanella livingstonensis Ac10, and their enhanced production by alteration of phospholipid composition - Fumiaki Yokoyama; Jun Kawamoto; Tomoya Imai; Tatsuo Kurihara (Extremophiles, 2017)

A Shinella β-N-acetylglucosaminidase of glycoside hydrolase family 20 displays novel biochemical and molecular characteristics - Junpei Zhou; Zhifeng Song; Rui Zhang; Caihong Chen; Qian Wu; Junjun Li; Xianghua Tang; Bo Xu; Junmei Ding; Nanyu Han; Zunxi Huang (Extremophiles, 2017)

Soda pans of the Pannonian steppe harbor unique bacterial communities adapted to multiple extreme conditions - Attila Szabó; Kristóf Korponai; Csaba Kerepesi; Boglárka Somogyi; Lajos Vörös; Dániel Bartha; Károly Márialigeti; Tamás Felföldi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Halocin C8: an antimicrobial peptide distributed among four halophilic archaeal genera: Natrinema, Haloterrigena, Haloferax, and Halobacterium - Alison Besse; Manon Vandervennet; Christophe Goulard; Jean Peduzzi; Stéphanie Isaac; Sylvie Rebuffat; Alyssa Carré-Mlouka (Extremophiles, 2017)

Activity-guided separation and characterization of new halocin HA3 from fermented broth of Haloferax larsenii HA3 - Vijay Kumar; Santosh Kumar Tiwari (Extremophiles, 2017)

Halophilic mechanism of the enzymatic function of a moderately halophilic dihydrofolate reductase from Haloarcula japonica strain TR-1 - Yurina Miyashita; Eiji Ohmae; Teikichi Ikura; Kaoru Nakasone; Katsuo Katayanagi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Reverse gyrase is essential for microbial growth at 95 °C - Gina L. Lipscomb; Elin M. Hahn; Alexander T. Crowley; Michael W. W. Adams (Extremophiles, 2017)

Identification of an archaeal maltooligosyltrehalose trehalohydrolase encoded by an interrupted gene - Ye Zhou; Guiqiu Xie; Lin Chang; Yan Wang; Renjun Gao (Extremophiles, 2017)

Nitrate reduction in Haloferax alexandrinus: the case of assimilatory nitrate reductase - Volkan Kilic; Gözde Aydoğan Kilic; Hatice Mehtap Kutlu; Rosa María Martínez-Espinosa (Extremophiles, 2017)

Freeze–thaw revival of rotifers and algae in a desiccated, high-elevation (5500 meters) microbial mat, high Andes, Perú - S. K. Schmidt; J. L. Darcy; Pacifica Sommers; Eva Gunawan; J. E. Knelman; Karina Yager (Extremophiles, 2017)

TfoI produced by Tepidimonas fonticaldi PL17, a moderate thermophilic bacterium, is an isoschizomer of MseI - Ravinder Kumar; Anil Kumar Pinnaka; Beena Krishnan (Extremophiles, 2017)

Identification of a novel copper-activated and halide-tolerant laccase in Geobacillus thermopakistaniensis - Saadia Basheer; Naeem Rashid; Raza Ashraf; Muhammad Sohail Akram; Masood Ahmed Siddiqui; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2017)

Comparative genomics analysis of five Psychrobacter strains isolated from world-wide habitats reveal high intra-genus variations - Shan Zhang; Weizhi Song; Min Yu; Xuezheng Lin (Extremophiles, 2017)

Pcal_0111, a highly thermostable bifunctional fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase from Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Iram Aziz; Naeem Rashid; Raza Ashraf; Qamar Bashir; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2017)

Bacterial diversity in fumarole environments of the Paricutín volcano, Michoacán (Mexico) - Miguel Medrano-Santillana; Elcia Margaret Souza-Brito; Robert Duran; Felix Gutierrez-Corona; Georgina Elena Reyna-López (Extremophiles, 2017)

Multifactorial level of extremostability of proteins: can they be exploited for protein engineering? - Debamitra Chakravorty; Mohd Faheem Khan; Sanjukta Patra (Extremophiles, 2017)

Phenol degradation and heavy metal tolerance of Antarctic yeasts - Pablo Marcelo Fernández; María Martha Martorell; Mariana G. Blaser; Lucas Adolfo Mauro Ruberto; Lucía Inés Castellanos de Figueroa; Walter Patricio Mac Cormack (Extremophiles, 2017)

Degradation of azo dye methyl red by alkaliphilic, halotolerant Nesterenkonia lacusekhoensis EMLA3: application in alkaline and salt-rich dyeing effluent treatment - Amrik Bhattacharya; Nidhi Goyal; Anshu Gupta (Extremophiles, 2017)

Redox regulation of SurR by protein disulfide oxidoreductase in Thermococcus onnurineus NA1 - Jae Kyu Lim; Hae-Chang Jung; Sung Gyun Kang; Hyun Sook Lee (Extremophiles, 2017)

Acidicapsa ferrireducens sp. nov., Acidicapsa acidiphila sp. nov., and Granulicella acidiphila sp. nov.: novel acidobacteria isolated from metal-rich acidic waters - Carmen Falagán; Bärbel Foesel; Barrie Johnson (Extremophiles, 2017)

Pyrophosphate hydrolysis in the extremely halophilic archaeon Haloarcula japonica is catalyzed by a single enzyme with a broad ionic strength range - Satoshi Wakai; Akihiro Abe; Sotaro Fujii; Kaoru Nakasone; Yoshihiro Sambongi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Searching for novel photolyases in UVC-resistant Antarctic bacteria - Juan José Marizcurrena; María A. Morel; Victoria Braña; Danilo Morales; Wilner Martinez-López; Susana Castro-Sowinski (Extremophiles, 2017)

Extremely high intracellular concentration of glucose-6-phosphate and NAD(H) in Deinococcus radiodurans - Takumi Yamashiro; Kousaku Murata; Shigeyuki Kawai (Extremophiles, 2017)

High-affinity RNA binding by a hyperthermophilic single-stranded DNA-binding protein - Michael J. Morten; Roland Gamsjaeger; Liza Cubeddu; Ruvini Kariawasam; Jose Peregrina; J. Carlos Penedo; Malcolm F. White (Extremophiles, 2017)

Screening, purification, and characterization of a novel organic solvent-tolerant esterase, Lip2, from Monascus purpureus strain M7 - Li-Jing Kang; Zi-Tong Meng; Chen Hu; Yan Zhang; Hai-Lun Guo; Qing Li; Mu Li (Extremophiles, 2017)

Namib Desert edaphic bacterial, fungal and archaeal communities assemble through deterministic processes but are influenced by different abiotic parameters - Riegardt M. Johnson; Jean-Baptiste Ramond; Eoin Gunnigle; Mary Seely; Don A. Cowan (Extremophiles, 2017)

Difference in NaCl tolerance of membrane-bound 5′-nucleotidases purified from deep-sea and brackish water Shewanella species - Taka-aki Kuribayashi; Sotaro Fujii; Misa Masanari; Masaru Yamanaka; Satoshi Wakai; Yoshihiro Sambongi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Cryo-electron microscopy of an extremely halophilic microbe: technical aspects - Daniel Bollschweiler; Miroslava Schaffer; C. Martin Lawrence; Harald Engelhardt (Extremophiles, 2017)

Microbial diversity and autotrophic activity in Kamchatka hot springs - Alexander Yu. Merkel; Nikolay V. Pimenov; Igor I. Rusanov; Alexander I. Slobodkin; Galina B. Slobodkina; Ivan Yu. Tarnovetckii; Evgeny N. Frolov; Arseny V. Dubin; Anna A. Perevalova; Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Extremophiles, 2017)

Pectinolytic yeasts from cold environments: novel findings of Guehomyces pullulans, Cystofilobasidium infirmominiatum and Cryptococcus adeliensis producing pectinases - Ivana Cavello; Agustín Albanesi; Dante Fratebianchi; Gabriela Garmedia; Silvana Vero; Sebastián Cavalitto (Extremophiles, 2017)

Extreme dehydration observed in Antarctic Turgidosculum complicatulum and in Prasiola crispa - M. Bacior; P. Nowak; H. Harańczyk; S. Patryas; P. Kijak; A. Ligęzowska; M. A. Olech (Extremophiles, 2017)

Coccomyxa: a dominant planktic alga in two acid lakes of different origin - Dovilė Barcytė; Linda Nedbalová (Extremophiles, 2017)

Pristine but metal-rich Río Sucio (Dirty River) is dominated by Gallionella and other iron-sulfur oxidizing microbes - Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez; Fernando Puente-Sánchez; Roberto Avendaño; Eduardo Libby; Leonardo Rojas; Juan Carlos Cambronero; Dietmar H. Pieper; Kenneth N. Timmis; Max Chavarría (Extremophiles, 2017)

Development of a pyrE-based selective system for Thermotoga sp. strain RQ7 - Dongmei Han; Zhaohui Xu (Extremophiles, 2017)

Proteome-wide identification of lysine propionylation in thermophilic and mesophilic bacteria: Geobacillus kaustophilus, Thermus thermophilus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, and Rhodothermus marinus - Hiroki Okanishi; Kwang Kim; Ryoji Masui; Seiki Kuramitsu (Extremophiles, 2017)

Insertion sequences enrichment in extreme Red sea brine pool vent - Ali H. A. Elbehery; Ramy K. Aziz; Rania Siam (Extremophiles, 2017)

Antarctomyces pellizariae sp. nov., a new, endemic, blue, snow resident psychrophilic ascomycete fungus from Antarctica - Graciéle C. A. de Menezes; Valéria M. Godinho; Bárbara A. Porto; Vívian N. Gonçalves; Luiz H. Rosa (Extremophiles, 2017)

International Conference on Extremophiles 2016 - Garabed Antranikian (Extremophiles, 2017)

Microbial diversity in degraded and non-degraded petroleum samples and comparison across oil reservoirs at local and global scales - Isabel Natalia Sierra-Garcia; Bruna M. Dellagnezze; Viviane P. Santos; Michel R. Chaves B; Ramsés Capilla; Eugenio V. Santos Neto; Neil Gray; Valeria M. Oliveira (Extremophiles, 2017)

The thermophilic biomass-degrading fungus Thielavia terrestris Co3Bag1 produces a hyperthermophilic and thermostable β-1,4-xylanase with exo- and endo-activity - Yolanda García-Huante; Maribel Cayetano-Cruz; Alejandro Santiago-Hernández; Claudia Cano-Ramírez; Rodolfo Marsch-Moreno; Jorge E. Campos; Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio; Claudia G. Benitez-Cardoza; Sergio Trejo-Estrada; María Eugenia Hidalgo-Lara (Extremophiles, 2017)

A manganese catalase from Thermomicrobium roseum with peroxidase and catecholase activity - Robin Baginski; Monika Sommerhalter (Extremophiles, 2017)

Identity, ecology and ecophysiology of planktic green algae dominating in ice-covered lakes on James Ross Island (northeastern Antarctic Peninsula) - Linda Nedbalová; Martin Mihál; Jana Kvíderová; Lenka Procházková; Tomáš Řezanka; Josef Elster (Extremophiles, 2017)

Identification of a VapBC toxin–antitoxin system in a thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27 - Yuqi Fan; Takayuki Hoshino; Akira Nakamura (Extremophiles, 2017)

Biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by an acidophilic Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain AJH1 isolated from a mineral mining site in Saudi Arabia - P. Arulazhagan; K. Al-Shekri; Q. Huda; J. J. Godon; J. M. Basahi; D. Jeyakumar (Extremophiles, 2017)

Characterization of two novel heat-active α-galactosidases from thermophilic bacteria - Carola Schröder; Viktoria-Astrid Janzer; Georg Schirrmacher; Jörg Claren; Garabed Antranikian (Extremophiles, 2017)

Acknowledgment to reviewers 2016 (Extremophiles, 2017)

AglH, a thermophilic UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate:dolichyl phosphate GlcNAc-1-phosphotransferase initiating protein N-glycosylation pathway in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, is capable of complementing the eukaryal Alg7 - Benjamin H. Meyer; Hosam Shams-Eldin; Sonja-Verena Albers (Extremophiles, 2017)

Microbial community analysis of pH 4 thermal springs in Yellowstone National Park - Xiaoben Jiang; Cristina D. Takacs-Vesbach (Extremophiles, 2017)

Genetic background of enhanced radioresistance in an anhydrobiotic insect: transcriptional response to ionizing radiations and desiccation - Alina Ryabova; Kyosuke Mukae; Alexander Cherkasov; Richard Cornette; Elena Shagimardanova; Tetsuya Sakashita; Takashi Okuda; Takahiro Kikawada; Oleg Gusev (Extremophiles, 2017)

Nonconventional cation-coupled flagellar motors derived from the alkaliphilic Bacillus and Paenibacillus species - Masahiro Ito; Yuka Takahashi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Novel stand-alone RAM domain protein-mediated catalytic control of anthranilate phosphoribosyltransferase in tryptophan biosynthesis in Thermus thermophilus - Tetsuo Kubota; Hajime Matsushita; Takeo Tomita; Saori Kosono; Minoru Yoshida; Tomohisa Kuzuyama; Makoto Nishiyama (Extremophiles, 2017)

Establishment of gene transfer and gene silencing methods in a desiccation-tolerant cell line, Pv11 - Yoichiro Sogame; Jun Okada; Shingo Kikuta; Yugo Miyata; Richard Cornette; Oleg Gusev; Takahiro Kikawada (Extremophiles, 2017)

Genetic analyses of the functions of [NiFe]-hydrogenase maturation endopeptidases in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis - Tamotsu Kanai; Ayako Yasukochi; Jan-Robert Simons; Joseph Walker Scott; Wakao Fukuda; Tadayuki Imanaka; Haruyuki Atomi (Extremophiles, 2017)

Differences in the phenotypic effects of mutations in homologous MrpA and MrpD subunits of the multi-subunit Mrp-type Na+/H+ antiporter - Masato Morino; Shinichiro Ogoda; Terry Ann Krulwich; Masahiro Ito (Extremophiles, 2017)

Sequential formation of two branched intermediates during protein splicing of class three inteins - Kazuo Tori; Francine Perler (Extremophiles, 2017)

“Hot” acetogenesis - Mirko Basen; Volker Müller (Extremophiles, 2017)

Target DNA recognition and cleavage by a reconstituted Type I-G CRISPR-Cas immune effector complex - Sonali Majumdar; Marianne Ligon; William Colby Skinner; Rebecca M. Terns; Michael P. Terns (Extremophiles, 2017)

Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans SS3 presents little RNA transcript response related to cold stress during growth at 8 °C suggesting it is a eurypsychrophile - Stephan Christel; Jimmy Fridlund; Elizabeth L. Watkin; Mark Dopson (Extremophiles, 2016)

Characterization of basidiomycetous yeasts in hypersaline soils of the Urmia Lake National Park, Iran - Lachin Mokhtarnejad; Mahdi Arzanlou; Asadollah Babai-Ahari; Simone Di Mauro; Andrea Onofri; Pietro Buzzini; Benedetta Turchetti (Extremophiles, 2016)

Biochemical characterization of a halophilic, alkalithermophilic protease from Alkalibacillus sp. NM-Da2 - Asmaa R. Abdel-Hamed; Dina M. Abo-Elmatty; Juergen Wiegel; Noha M. Mesbah (Extremophiles, 2016)

‘Candidatus Desulfonatronobulbus propionicus’: a first haloalkaliphilic member of the order Syntrophobacterales from soda lakes - D. Y. Sorokin; N. A. Chernyh (Extremophiles, 2016)

Antarctic strict anaerobic microbiota from Deschampsia antarctica vascular plants rhizosphere reveals high ecology and biotechnology relevance - Rafael José Marques Peixoto; Karla Rodrigues Miranda; Leandro Araujo Lobo; Alessandra Granato; Pedro de Carvalho Maalouf; Hugo Emiliano de Jesus; Caio T. C. C. Rachid; Saulo Roni Moraes; Henrique Fragoso dos Santos; Raquel Silva Peixoto; Alexandre Soares Rosado; Regina Maria Cavalcanti Pilotto Domingues (Extremophiles, 2016)

Seasonal and altitudinal changes of culturable bacterial and yeast diversity in Alpine forest soils - Luís França; Ciro Sannino; Benedetta Turchetti; Pietro Buzzini; Rosa Margesin (Extremophiles, 2016)

Characterization of two β-decarboxylating dehydrogenases from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius - Kento Takahashi; Fumika Nakanishi; Takeo Tomita; Nagisa Akiyama; Kerstin Lassak; Sonja-Verena Albers; Tomohisa Kuzuyama; Makoto Nishiyama (Extremophiles, 2016)

Bifunctional recombinant cellulase–xylanase (rBhcell-xyl) from the polyextremophilic bacterium Bacillus halodurans TSLV1 and its utility in valorization of renewable agro-residues - Gurdeep Rattu; Swati Joshi; T. Satyanarayana (Extremophiles, 2016)

Pcal_1127, a highly stable and efficient ribose-5-phosphate pyrophosphokinase from Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Tahira Bibi; Sumera Perveen; Iram Aziz; Qamar Bashir; Naeem Rashid; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2016)

Comparison of the compatible solute pool of two slightly halophilic planctomycetes species, Gimesia maris and Rubinisphaera brasiliensis - Catarina Ferreira; Ana R. Soares; Pedro Lamosa; Manuel A. Santos; Milton S. da Costa (Extremophiles, 2016)

Yeasts from sub-Antarctic region: biodiversity, enzymatic activities and their potential as oleaginous microorganisms - A. Martinez; I. Cavello; G. Garmendia; C. Rufo; S. Cavalitto; S. Vero (Extremophiles, 2016)

Substrate adaptabilities of Thermotogae mannan binding proteins as a function of their evolutionary histories - Nathalie Boucher; Kenneth M. Noll (Extremophiles, 2016)

Distinct catalytic activity and in vivo roles of the ExoIII and EndoIV AP endonucleases from Sulfolobus islandicus - Zhou Yan; Qihong Huang; Jinfeng Ni; Yulong Shen (Extremophiles, 2016)

Analysis of the bacteriorhodopsin-producing haloarchaea reveals a core community that is stable over time in the salt crystallizers of Eilat, Israel - Nikhil Ram-Mohan; Aharon Oren; R. Thane Papke (Extremophiles, 2016)

Molecular cloning and enzymological characterization of pyridoxal 5′-phosphate independent aspartate racemase from hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus litoralis DSM 5473 - Tsubasa Washio; Shiro Kato; Tadao Oikawa (Extremophiles, 2016)

Erratum to: Pcal_0768, a hyperactive 4-α-glucanotransferase from Pyrobaculum calidifontis - Sumaira Mehboob; Nasir Ahmad; Naeem Rashid; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2016)

Role of F225 in O-phosphoserine sulfhydrylase from Aeropyrum pernix K1 - Emi Takeda; Kohei Kunimoto; Yoshito Kawai; Misumi Kataoka; Kazuhiko Ishikawa; Takashi Nakamura (Extremophiles, 2016)

Crystal structure of a putative oligopeptide-binding periplasmic protein from a hyperthermophile - Hye-Jin Yoon; Hee Jung Kim; Bunzo Mikami; Yeon Gyu Yu; Hyung Ho Lee (Extremophiles, 2016)

HU histone-like DNA-binding protein from Thermus thermophilus: structural and evolutionary analyses - Anna C. Papageorgiou; Panagiotis S. Adam; Philemon Stavros; George Nounesis; Rob Meijers; Kyriacos Petratos; Constantinos E. Vorgias (Extremophiles, 2016)

Investigation of bacterial and archaeal communities: novel protocols using modern sequencing by Illumina MiSeq and traditional DGGE-cloning - Lucia Kraková; Katarína Šoltys; Jaroslav Budiš; Tomáš Grivalský; František Ďuriš; Domenico Pangallo; Tomáš Szemes (Extremophiles, 2016)

Generation of acid mine drainage around the Karaerik copper mine (Espiye, Giresun, NE Turkey): implications from the bacterial population in the Acısu effluent - Emine Selva Sağlam; Miğraç Akçay; Dilşat Nigar Çolak; Kadriye İnan Bektaş; Ali Osman Beldüz (Extremophiles, 2016)

Degradation properties of various macromolecules of cultivable psychrophilic bacteria from the deep-sea water of the South Pacific Gyre - Li Zhang; Yan Wang; Jing Liang; Qinghao Song; Xiao-Hua Zhang (Extremophiles, 2016)

Two propanediol utilization-like proteins of Moorella thermoacetica with phosphotransacetylase activity - Ronja Breitkopf; Ronny Uhlig; Tina Drenckhan; Ralf-Jörg Fischer (Extremophiles, 2016)

Structural characterization of the lipid A from the LPS of the haloalkaliphilic bacterium Halomonas pantelleriensis - Sara Carillo; Giuseppina Pieretti; Angela Casillo; Buko Lindner; Ida Romano; Barbara Nicolaus; Michelangelo Parrilli; Mariateresa Giuliano; Marcella Cammarota; Rosa Lanzetta; Maria Michela Corsaro (Extremophiles, 2016)

Activity–stability relationships revisited in blue oxidases catalyzing electron transfer at extreme temperatures - Frédéric Roulling; Amandine Godin; Alexandre Cipolla; Tony Collins; Kentaro Miyazaki; Georges Feller (Extremophiles, 2016)

Dark stains on rock surfaces in Driny Cave (Little Carpathian Mountains, Slovakia) - Rafał Ogórek; Mariusz Dyląg; Bartosz Kozak (Extremophiles, 2016)

Growth of high-elevation Cryptococcus sp. during extreme freeze–thaw cycles - L. Vimercati; S. Hamsher; Z. Schubert; S. K. Schmidt (Extremophiles, 2016)

Expression and functional analysis of two NhaD type antiporters from the halotolerant and alkaliphilic Halomonas sp. Y2 - Yanbing Cui; Bin Cheng; Yiwei Meng; Chunfang Li; Huijia Yin; Ping Xu; Chunyu Yang (Extremophiles, 2016)

Diversity of extremophilic bacteria in the sediment of high-altitude lakes located in the mountain desert of Ojos del Salado volcano, Dry-Andes - Júlia Margit Aszalós; Gergely Krett; Dóra Anda; Károly Márialigeti; Balázs Nagy; Andrea K. Borsodi (Extremophiles, 2016)

Comparative analysis of prokaryotic diversity in solar salterns in eastern Anatolia (Turkey) - Seval Çınar; Mehmet Burçin Mutlu (Extremophiles, 2016)

Characterization of a NaCl-tolerant β-N-acetylglucosaminidase from Sphingobacterium sp. HWLB1 - Junpei Zhou; Zhifeng Song; Rui Zhang; Limei Ding; Qian Wu; Junjun Li; Xianghua Tang; Bo Xu; Junmei Ding; Nanyu Han; Zunxi Huang (Extremophiles, 2016)

Pcal_0768, a hyperactive 4-α-glucanotransferase from Pyrobacculum calidifontis - Sumaira Mehboob; Nasir Ahmad; Naeem Rashid; Tadayuki Imanaka; Muhammad Akhtar (Extremophiles, 2016)

Characterization of two key enzymes for aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in symbiotic archaea - Irina Shlaifer; Joanne L. Turnbull (Extremophiles, 2016)

Knockout and functional analysis of two DExD/H-box family helicase genes in Sulfolobus islandicus REY15A - Xueguo Song; Qihong Huang; Jinfeng Ni; Yang Yu; Yulong Shen (Extremophiles, 2016)

Analysis of the metatranscriptome of microbial communities of an alkaline hot sulfur spring revealed different gene encoding pathway enzymes associated with energy metabolism - Swetaleena Tripathy; Soumesh Kumar Padhi; Sriprakash Mohanty; Mrinal Samanta; Nikhil Kumar Maiti (Extremophiles, 2016)

In memoriam: Koki Horikoshi (1932–2016) - Toshiaki Kudo (Extremophiles, 2016)

Melanin production by a yeast strain XJ5-1 of Aureobasidium melanogenum isolated from the Taklimakan desert and its role in the yeast survival in stress environments - Hong Jiang; Nan-Nan Liu; Guang-Lei Liu; Zhe Chi; Jian-Ming Wang; Ly-Ly Zhang; Zhen-Ming Chi (Extremophiles, 2016)

Hyperthermostable Thermotoga maritima xylanase XYN10B shows high activity at high temperatures in the presence of biomass-dissolving hydrophilic ionic liquids - Tianyi Yu; Sasikala Anbarasan; Yawei Wang; Kübra Telli; Aşkın Sevinç Aslan; Zhengding Su; Yin Zhou; Li Zhang; Piia Iivonen; Sami Havukainen; Tero Mentunen; Michael Hummel; et al. (Extremophiles, 2016)

A high-molecular-weight, alkaline, and thermostable β-1,4-xylanase of a subseafloor Microcella alkaliphila - Koki Kuramochi; Kohsuke Uchimura; Atsushi Kurata; Tohru Kobayashi; Yuu Hirose; Takeshi Miura; Noriaki Kishimoto; Ron Usami; Koki Horikoshi (Extremophiles, 2016)

Diversity and distribution of cultured endolichenic fungi in the Ny-Ålesund Region, Svalbard (High Arctic) - Tao Zhang; Xin-Li Wei; Yu-Zhen Wei; Hong-Yu Liu; Li-Yan Yu (Extremophiles, 2016)

Identification and characterization of yeasts isolated from sedimentary rocks of Union Glacier at the Antarctica - Salvador Barahona; Yassef Yuivar; Gabriel Socias; Jennifer Alcaíno; Víctor Cifuentes; Marcelo Baeza (Extremophiles, 2016)

Purification and characterization of thermostable serine proteases encoded by the genes ttha0099 and ttha01320 from Thermus thermophilus HB8 - Hui Li; Yajie Sun; Xue Jiao; Honglin Wang; Hu Zhu (Extremophiles, 2016)