Life at the extreme: lessons from the genome

Table 1 Recent studies on extremophile genomes and transcriptomes

Species	Order	Methods	Stress studied	References
Lobularia maritima	Brassicales	Enriched cDNA library	Salt	[49]
Thellungiella parvula	Brassicales	NGS - genome/transcriptome	Salt	[10]
Thellungiella salsuginea	Brassicales	EST sequencing; enriched cDNA library	Salt, cold	[67]
Amaranthus hypochondriacus	Caryophyllales	NGS- transcriptome	Drought	[68]
Limonium sinense	Caryophyllales	EST sequencing; enriched cDNA library	Salt	[25]
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum	Caryophyllales	EST sequencing	Salt	[69, 70]
Salicornia brachiata	Caryophyllales	EST sequencing; enriched cDNA library	Salt	[71]
Avicennia marina	Lamiales	EST sequencing; enriched cDNA library	Salt	[72]
Rhizophora mangle	Malpighiales	NGS - transcriptome	Salt, heat, low nutrient, flooding	[26, 73]
Populus euphratica	Malpighiales	Microarray; NGS - transcriptome	Salt, drought	[14, 74, 75]
Populus × canescens	Malpighiales	Microarray	Flooding	[76]
Heritiera littoralis	Malvales	NGS - transcriptome	Salt, heat, low nutrient, flooding	[26, 73]
Festuca rubra ssp. litoralis	Poales	Enriched cDNA library	Salt	[50]
Spartina alterniflora	Poales	EST sequencing; enriched cDNA library	Salt	[77]
Craterostigma plantagineum	Scrophulariales	NGS - transcriptome	Desiccation	[13]
Solanum commersonii	Solanales	Microarray	Cold	[78]

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