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Diversity, 2021 Movile Cave hosts one of the world’s most diverse subsurface invertebrate communities. In the absence of matter and energy input from the surface, this ecosystem relies entirely on in situ primary productivity by chemoautotrophic microorganisms.
Traian Brad +2 more
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Microbial Ecosystems in Movile Cave: An Environment of Extreme Life
Life, 2023 Movile Cave, situated in Romania close to the Black Sea, constitutes a distinct and challenging environment for life. Its partially submerged ecosystem depends on chemolithotrophic processes for its energetics, which are fed by a continuous hypogenic ...
Joost W. Aerts +4 more
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Environmental Microbiome, 2022 Background Movile Cave (SE Romania) is a chemoautotrophically-based ecosystem fed by hydrogen sulfide-rich groundwater serving as a primary energy source analogous to the deep-sea hydrothermal ecosystems.
Iulia Chiciudean +7 more
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Aerobic proteobacterial methylotrophs in Movile Cave: genomic and metagenomic analyses
Microbiome, 2018 Background Movile Cave (Mangalia, Romania) is a unique ecosystem where the food web is sustained by microbial primary production, analogous to deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
Deepak Kumaresan +7 more
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Kryptonesticus georgescuae spec. nov. from Movile Cave, Romania (Araneae: Nesticidae)
Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2018 Kryptonesticus georgescuae spec. nov., a blind troglobitic spider species from the mesothermal sulfidic Movile Cave (Romania), is described and illustrated based on two female specimens. The male is unknown.
Nae, Augustin +2 more
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The European Zoological JournalGeophilus zagreus sp. nov., a troglomorphic geophilid endemic to the Movile Cave sulfidic groundwater ecosystem, is described and illustrated. It is distinguished from other European Geophilus species by a high number of coxal pores on the ventral side ...
Ş. C. Baba +4 more
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Five million years in the darkness: A new troglomorphic species of Cryptops Leach, 1814 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) from Movile Cave, Romania [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 A new species of Cryptops Leach, 1814, C. speleorex sp. nov., is described from Movile Cave, Dobrogea, Romania. The cave is remarkable for its unique ecosystem entirely dependent on methane- and sulfur-oxidising bacteria.
Varpu Vahtera +2 more
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A new cave Pseudoscorpion from the region of Mangalia (Romania): Chthonius (Ephippiochthonius) borissketi n. sp. (Chthoniidae, Pseudoscorpiones) [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2014 Only two species of Chthonius (Ephippiochthonius) (Chthoniidae) are presently known from Dobruja, Romania. Among these one should mention Chthonius (Ephippiochthonius) tetrachelatus (Preyssler) (not endemic) and C.
Ćurčić B.P.M. +3 more
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Diversity, 2021 The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [...]
Traian Brad +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Sulfidic cave ecosystems are remarkable evolutionary hotspots that have witnessed adaptive radiation of their fauna represented by extremophile species having particular traits.
Sanda Iepure +4 more
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