Are extreme halophiles actually "bacteria"?
Comparative cataloging of the 16SrRNA of Halobacterium halobium indicates that the organism did not arise, as a halophilic adaptation, from some typical bacterium. Rather, H. halobium is a member of the Archaebacteria, an ancient group of organisms that are no more related to typical bacteria than they are to eucaryotes.
D001483:Base Sequence; D006217:Halobacterium / Q000145:classification*; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000032:analysis; D010802:Phylogeny; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000032:analysis
D009841:Oligonucleotides; D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal