and their red pigment, can remain in salt crystals left behind long after a lake dries up. "The Halobacterium genome is one of the first and only genetically tractable archaea to be sequenced.

Ed Boyden and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now report a red light–activated ... properties in the 'Shark' strain of Halobacterium salinarum. They inserted two ...

Halophiles also go by the name Halobacterium; yet ... In fact, the word "archaea" is Greek, meaning "ancient." Lake Hillier is one of the most uniquely colored lakes on Earth.

The three domains of life—archaea, bacteria ... The researchers studied Halobacterium salinarum, an extremophile that lives in high-salt environments. They found that like bacteria and budding ...

In contrast, little is known about how archaea swim. In a study published ... University clarified how the swimming model archaeon Halobacterium salinarum produces motility by using its rotary ...