Bacterial metabolism of methylated amines and identification of novel methylotrophs in Movile Cave. [PDF]
ISME J, 2015 Abstract Movile Cave, Romania, is an unusual underground ecosystem that has been sealed off from the outside world for several million years and is sustained by non-phototrophic carbon fixation. Methane and sulfur-oxidising bacteria are the main primary producers, supporting a complex food web that includes bacteria, fungi and cave ...
Wischer D +7 more
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A glimpse into the biosynthetic potential and resistome of microbial communities inhabiting sulfidic, chemoautotrophic Movile Cave ecosystem [PDF]
ARPHA Conference Abstracts, 2022 Background: Microbial secondary metabolites (SM), especially those produced by soil microorganisms, have been a valuable source of antibiotics, antitumor agents, pigments, growth-promoting substances, etc., with tremendous market potential.
I. Chiciudean +3 more
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Alveolates (dinoflagellates, ciliates and apicomplexans) and Rhizarians are the most common microbial eukaryotes in temperate Appalachian karst caves. [PDF]
Environ Microbiol Rep, 2022 Summary The purpose of this study was to survey the eukaryotic microbiome of two karst caves in the Valley and Ridge physiographic region of the Appalachian Mountains. Caves are known to harbour eukaryotic microbes but their very low densities and small cell size make them difficult to collect and identify.
Cahoon AB, VanGundy RD.
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Standing genetic variation as a potential mechanism of novel cave phenotype evolution in the freshwater isopod, Asellus aquaticus. [PDF]
Evol Dev, 2023 An orange eye phenotype, hidden within cave populations (masked by absence of pigment), was uncovered through crossing cave populations with surface populations. A similar orange eye phenotype can be found within surface populations suggesting that orange alleles within the cave populations originated from standing variation in the founding surface ...
Rodas LR +5 more
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Cave Thiovulum (Candidatus Thiovulum stygium) differs metabolically and genomically from marine species. [PDF]
ISME J, 2023 Thiovulum spp. (Campylobacterota) are large sulfur bacteria that form veil-like structures in aquatic environments. The sulfidic Movile Cave (Romania), sealed from the atmosphere for ~5 million years, has several aqueous chambers, some with low ...
Bizic M +14 more
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ARPHA Conference Abstracts, 2020 Life in Movile Cave (Romania) relies entirely on primary carbon fixation by bacteria oxidizing sulfide, methane and ammonia with oxygen, nitrate, sulfate, and ferric iron.
M. Bižić +10 more
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Is foraging innovation lost following colonization of a less variable environment? A case study in surface- vs. cave-dwelling Asellus aquaticus. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 We showed that cave‐adapted freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus did not lose its ability to recognize and even prefer surface food after at least 60,000 years of isolation in the cave . This result suggest that adaptation to a highly specialized and stable habitat does not necessary include a decrease in behavioral innovativeness.
Herczeg G +5 more
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Parallel morphological evolution and habitat-dependent sexual dimorphism in cave- vs. surface populations of the Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae) species complex. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 Surface‐dwelling species that repeatedly and independently colonized caves such as Asellus aquaticus provide unique models to study parallel evolution. We measured and analyzed 17 functional morphological traits on 656 individuals from 15 cave and surface populations. We found that besides the expected habitat‐related morphological changes habitat type
Balázs G +4 more
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Comparative Embryology and Transcriptomics of Asellus infernus, an Isopod Crustacean From Sulfidic Groundwater. [PDF]
Evol DevIndividuals of Asellus infernus, a sulfidic subterranean population of the Asellus aquaticus species complex from southeastern Romania (left) and surface individuals of A. aquaticus (right). Extreme differences in phenotype are seen comparing the subterranean and surface individuals as adults (top panels) and as embryonic samples (bottom panels ...
Lomheim HJ +8 more
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New and little-known species of Chthoniidae and Neobisiidae (Pseudoscorpiones, Arachnida) from the Movile Cave in southern Dobrogea, Romania [PDF]
Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 1993 Two species of Roncus L. Koch, 1873 (Neobisiidae), new to science (R. ciobanmos n. sp. and R. dragobete n. sp.), and one species of Neobisium Chamberlin, 1930 [N. (N). biharicum Beier, 1939], collected in the Movile Cave, southern Dobrogea, Romania, have
B. Ćurčić, G. Poinar, S. Sarbu
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