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…an evaporite crust of mainly NaCl is maintained with brine from subterranean salt deposits. Salt Plains Microbial Observatory (SPMO) has isolated a wide variety of halotolerant and halophilic bacteria, archaea, cyanobacteria, algae, and fungi. Initial heterotrophic enrichments and plating of SPMO soils yielded 105 diverse aerobic bacteria representing 46 …
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