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Planktonic microbial communities from microbialite-bearing lakes sampled along a salinity-alkalinity gradient. [PDF]

Limnol Oceanogr, 2022
Abstract Continental freshwater systems are particularly vulnerable to environmental variation. Climate change‐induced desertification and the anthropogenic exploitation of hydric resources result in the progressive evaporation and salinization of inland water bodies in many areas of the globe.
Iniesto M, Moreira D, Benzerara K, Reboul G, Bertolino P, Tavera R, López-García P.   +6 more
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Micropearls and other intracellular inclusions of amorphous calcium carbonate: an unsuspected biomineralization capacity shared by diverse microorganisms. [PDF]

Environ Microbiol, 2022
Summary An unsuspected biomineralization process, which produces intracellular inclusions of amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), was recently discovered in unicellular eukaryotes. These mineral inclusions, called micropearls, can be highly enriched with other alkaline‐earth metals (AEM) such as Sr and Ba.
Segovia-Campos I, Martignier A, Filella M, Jaquet JM, Ariztegui D.   +4 more
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Adaptation of Microbialite-Associated Prokaryotic Communities to Natural and Experimental Anoxic Conditions. [PDF]

Geobiology
ABSTRACT Microbialites are rocks formed by microbial communities that influence, promote, and/or control the precipitation of mineral phases. The oldest microbialites date back to the Archean and formed under globally anoxic conditions. Accordingly, modern microbialites developing under oxic conditions are limited analogs of their earliest predecessors.
Caumartin J, Benzerara K, Gutiérrez-Preciado A, Iniesto M, Bertolino P, Ciobanu M, Thomazo C, Havas R, Jézéquel D, Deschamps P, Tavera R, Moreira D, Lόpez-Garcίa P.   +12 more
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Prokaryotic and eukaryotic community structure in field and cultured microbialites from the alkaline Lake Alchichica (Mexico). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
The geomicrobiology of crater lake microbialites remains largely unknown despite their evolutionary interest due to their resemblance to some Archaean analogs in the dominance of in situ carbonate precipitation over accretion.
Estelle Couradeau, Karim Benzerara, David Moreira, Emmanuelle Gérard, Józef Kaźmierczak, Rosaluz Tavera, Purificación López-García   +6 more
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Untangling the Primary Biotic and Abiotic Controls on Oxygen, Inorganic and Organic Carbon Isotope Signals in Modern Microbialites. [PDF]

Geobiology
ABSTRACT Microbialites are organo‐sedimentary structures formed throughout most of the Earth history, over a wide range of geological contexts, and under a multitude of environmental conditions affecting their composition. The carbon and oxygen isotope records of carbonates, which are most often their main constituents, have been used as a widespread ...
Havas R, Thomazo C, Caumartin J, Iniesto M, Bert H, Jézéquel D, Moreira D, Tavera R, Bettencourt V, López-García P, Vennin E, Benzerara K.   +11 more
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Phenotypic plasticity of life-history traits of a calanoid copepod in a tropical lake: Is the magnitude of thermal plasticity related to thermal variability? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
According to the Climatic Variability Hypothesis [CVH], thermal plasticity should be wider in organisms from temperate environments, but is unlikely to occur in tropical latitudes where temperature fluctuations are narrow.
Elizabeth Ortega-Mayagoitia, Osvaldo Hernández-Martínez, Jorge Ciros-Pérez   +2 more
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Formation of Magnesium Carbonates on Earth and Implications for Mars. [PDF]

J Geophys Res Planets, 2021
Abstract Magnesium carbonates have been identified within the landing site of the Perseverance rover mission. This study reviews terrestrial analog environments and textural, mineral assemblage, isotopic, and elemental analyses that have been applied to establish formation conditions of magnesium carbonates.
Scheller EL, Swindle C, Grotzinger J, Barnhart H, Bhattacharjee S, Ehlmann BL, Farley K, Fischer WW, Greenberger R, Ingalls M, Martin PE, Osorio-Rodriguez D, Smith BP.   +12 more
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Alkaline saline lakes: A chemical evolution experiment evaluating the stability of formaldehyde in an aqueous saline environment [PDF]

Heliyon
Formaldehyde condensation in the presence of a mineral catalyst and under alkaline conditions is considered to be a ''messy'' chemical system due to its dependence on the complex chemical equilibrium between the reaction intermediates, which has a ...
Claudio Alejandro Fuentes-Carreón, Adriana Leticia Meléndez-López, Jorge Armando Cruz-Castañeda, Alicia Negrón-Mendoza   +3 more
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16S rDNA-based analysis reveals cosmopolitan occurrence but limited diversity of two cyanobacterial lineages with contrasted patterns of intracellular carbonate mineralization [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014
Cyanobacteria are mainly thought to induce carbonate precipitation extracellularly via their photosynthetic activity combined with the nucleation potential of exopolymeric substances. The discovery in microbialites of the alkaline lake Alchichica (Mexico)
Marie eRagon, Marie eRagon, Karim eBenzerara, David eMoreira, Rosaluz eTavera, Purificacion eLopez-Garcia   +5 more
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Metagenome-based diversity analyses suggest a significant contribution of non-cyanobacterial lineages to carbonate precipitation in modern microbialites [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015
Cyanobacteria are thought to play a key role in carbonate formation due to their metabolic activity, but other organisms carrying out oxygenic photosynthesis (photosynthetic eukaryotes) or other metabolisms (e.g.
Purificacion eLopez-Garcia
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