Isolated from Big Soda Lake, an arsenic-rich, hypersaline (26 to 88 g/liter total dissolved solids), alkaline (pH 9.7) lake located in Nevada (39 deg 31 min N 118 deg 52 min W).
Hernandez-Maldonado J, Stoneburner B, Boren A, Miller L, Rosen M, Oremland RS, Saltikov CW
Title
Genome Sequence of the Photoarsenotrophic Bacterium Ectothiorhodospira sp. Strain BSL-9, Isolated from a Hypersaline Alkaline Arsenic-Rich Extreme Environment.