MicrobiologyOpen, Volume 14, Issue 6, December 2025.Microbial communities from seven Dinaric cave ecosystems were surveyed for their laccase, urethanase, and protease enzymatic activities. The findings suggested potential applications in bioremediation, the biodegradation of synthetic polymers, and industrial biotechnology, highlighting the importance of biodiversity conservation.
Justinas Babinskas +4 more
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Alpha- and Gammaproteobacterial Methanotrophs Codominate the Active Methane-Oxidizing Communities in an Acidic Boreal Peat Bog [PDF]
, 2016 The objective of this study was to characterize metabolically active, aerobic methanotrophs in an ombrotrophic peatland in the Marcell Experimental Forest, Minnesota, USA.
Chanton, Jeffrey P. +5 more
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Phylogeny, Divergent Evolution, and Speciation of Sulfur-Oxidizing Acidithiobacillus Populations
BMC Genomics, 2019 Background Habitats colonized by acidophiles as an ideal physical barrier may induce genetic exchange of microbial members within the common communities, but little is known about how species in extremely acidic environments diverge and evolve.
Xian Zhang +6 more
doaj +1 more source
Comparative microbial ecology of the water column of an extreme acidic pit lake, Nuestra Señora del Carmen, and the Río Tinto basin (Iberian Pyrite Belt) [PDF]
, 2015 The Iberian Pyrite Belt, located in Southwestern Spain, represents one of the world’s largest accumulations of mine wastes and acid mine drainages.
Antonio García-Moyano +5 more
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Feasibility study on the microbial separation of iron from slime [PDF]
, 2011 Bio-mineral processing is the generic term that describes the processing of metal containing ores, concentrator tailings, newly mined run-of-the-mine (ROM) material, and intermediate to high-grade ores using (micro-) biological technology.
N, Rohini
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mBio, 2013 Microorganisms grow under a remarkable range of extreme conditions. Environmental transcriptomic and proteomic studies have highlighted metabolic pathways active in extremophilic communities.
Annika C. Mosier +6 more
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Electricity generation by microorganisms in the sediment-water interface of an extreme acidic microcosm [PDF]
, 2011 The attachment of microorganisms to electrodes is of great interest for electricity generation in microbial fuel cells (MFC) or other applications in bioelectrochemical systems (BES).
Amils, Ricardo +4 more
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Characterization of Ferroplasma isolates and Ferroplasma acidarmanus sp nov., extreme acidophiles from acid mine drainage and industrial bioleaching environments [PDF]
, 2004 Three recently isolated extremely acidophilic archaeal strains have been shown to be phylogenetically similar to Ferroplasma acidiphilum Y-T by 16S rRNA gene sequencing.
Baker-Austin, C. +4 more
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Electrochemical Characteristics of the Oxidation of Sulfur- and Iron-Containing Compounds by Acidophilic Microorganisms. [PDF]
Indian J Microbiol, 2022 Kashevskii AV +10 more
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Predicting taxonomic and functional structure of microbial communities in acid mine drainage. [PDF]
, 2016 Predicting the dynamics of community composition and functional attributes responding to environmental changes is an essential goal in community ecology but remains a major challenge, particularly in microbial ecology.
Chen, Linxing +10 more
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