1. The Diversity and Coping Mechanisms of Life Inhabiting the Hypersaline Dead Sea Open Access Author: Rhodes, Matthew E Title: The Diversity and Coping Mechanisms of Life Inhabiting the Hypersaline Dead Sea Graduate Program: Geosciences Keywords: Lateral Gene TransferHaloarchaeaHalophileDead SeaMetagenomics File: Download Dissertation_Final.pdf Committee Members: Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorChristopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-ChairJennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-ChairMark E Patzkowsky, Committee MemberMing Tien, Committee Member