• Life on the edge: Active microbial communities in the Kryos MgCl2-brine basin at very low water activity 

      Steinle, Lea; Knittel, Katrin; Felber, Nicole; Casalino, Claudia; de Lange, Gert; Tessarolo, Chiara; Stadnitskaia, Alina; Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S.; Zopfi, Jakob; Lehmann, Moritz F.; Treude, Tina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-17)
      The Kryos Basin is a deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin (DHAB) located in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (34.98°N 22.04°E). It is filled with brine of re-dissolved Messinian evaporites and is nearly saturated with MgCl<sub>2</sub>-equivalents, which makes this habitat extremely challenging for life. The strong density difference between the anoxic brine and the overlying oxic Mediterranean seawater ...