• A piezophile (from Greek "piezo-" for pressure and "-phile" for loving) is an organism with optimal growth under high hydrostatic pressure, i.e., an organism...
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    alkaline pH of about 8.5–11. Acidophiles can thrive in a pH of 2.0 or less. Piezophiles thrive at very high pressures: up to 1,000–2,000 atm, down to 0 atm as...
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  • 2014). "Transcriptomics Reveal Several Gene Expression Patterns in the Piezophile Desulfovibrio hydrothermalis in Response to Hydrostatic Pressure". PLOS...
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    Maudammina Cerelpemma? Holopsamma Abyssalia Moanammina Coenocyte Extremophile Piezophile Tendal, O.S. (1972) A MONOGRAPH OF THE XENOPHYOPHORIA (Rhizopodea, Protozoa)...
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    pH of less than 3, including the genera Sulfolobus and Picrophilus. Piezophiles, (also known as barophiles), prefer high pressure up to 130 MPa, such...
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    with optimal growth in environments with a high sugar concentration. Piezophile An organism with optimal growth in hydrostatic pressures above 10 MPa...
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  • organism capable of growth and reproduction in cold temperatures) and a piezophile (an organism which thrives at high pressures). Colony, morphological,...
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    into the ocean floor are known as infauna. Extremophiles, including piezophiles, which thrive in high pressures, may also live there. An example of benthos...
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  • about 10,000 times the standard atmospheric pressure. There are also piezophiles for which optimal growth occurs at pressures over 100 MPa, and some do...
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  • is not able to grow or reproduce at 30°C. S. violacea is a facultative piezophile (barophile) which means that it is able to thrive in high pressure conditions...
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  • based on whether microbial growth is inhibited at standard conditions (piezophiles) or above 40 MPa (piezotolerants). From a molecular point of view, the...
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    polyextremophiles, fitting the description of alkaliphiles, moderate piezophiles, and thermophiles in an environment without sunlight. The combination...
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    optimal growth at 15 °C and 28 MPa making it both a psychrophile and a piezophile. P. profundum strain 3TCK, isolates from San Diego Bay, grows optimally...
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    deepest Geocache in the world Gathering water and silt samples to look for piezophiles and microplastics. Gathering amphipoda to test for microplastics. Hydroforming...
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    extremophiles such as thermophiles, acidophiles, halophiles, and barophiles/piezophiles. The unique hydrothermal environment is rich in sulfur- and iron-based...
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  • Myceligenerans cantabricum (category Piezophiles)
    Myceligenerans cantabricum is a barotolerant bacterium from the genus Myceligenerans which has been isolated from deep cold-water from the Cantabrian Sea...
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  • Salinicola salarius (category Piezophiles)
    Salinicola salarius is a Gram-negative, moderately halophilic, piezophilic bacterium that requires pressures of 102 MPa to grow. The species was first...
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  • (FEB-2010) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases Allen, EE, Bartlett DH. 2004. Piezophiles: microbial adaptation to the deep-sea environment. Extremophiles. 3(...
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