Life on the rocks

AA Gorbushina - Environmental microbiology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Biofilms are interface micro‐habitats formed by microbes that differ markedly from those of
the ambient environment. The term 'subaerial biofilm'(SAB) was coined for microbial …

Bioreceptivity of building stones: A review

AZ Miller, P Sanmartín, L Pereira-Pardo… - Science of the total …, 2012 - Elsevier
In 1995, Guillitte defined bioreceptivity, a new term in ecology, as the ability of a material to
be colonized by living organisms. Information about the bioreceptivity of stone is of great …

Adaptive and acclimative responses of cyanobacteria to far‐red light

F Gan, DA Bryant - Environmental microbiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria use three major photosynthetic complexes, photosystem (PS) I, PS II and
phycobilisomes, to harvest and convert sunlight into chemical energy. Until recently, it was …

A review on possible elicitor molecules of cyanobacteria: their role in improving plant growth and providing tolerance against biotic or abiotic stress

S Singh - Journal of applied microbiology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria are prominent inhabitants of many agricultural soils, where they potentially
contribute towards biological nitrogen fixation, help in phosphate solubilization and mineral …

Differential colonization and succession of microbial communities in rock and soil substrates on a maritime antarctic glacier forefield

I Garrido-Benavent, S Pérez-Ortega, J Durán… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Glacier forefields provide a unique chronosequence to assess microbial or plant
colonization and ecological succession on previously uncolonized substrates. Patterns of …

Microorganisms in desert rocks: the edge of life on Earth

J Wierzchos, A Ríos, C Ascaso - 2012 - digital.csic.es
This article reviews current knowledge on microbial communities inhabiting endolithic
habitats in the arid and hyper-arid regions of our planet. In these extremely dry …

Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina

WD Swingley, M Chen, PC Cheung… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Acaryochloris marina is a unique cyanobacterium that is able to produce chlorophyll d as its
primary photosynthetic pigment and thus efficiently use far-red light for photosynthesis …

Actinobacteria and cyanobacteria diversity in terrestrial antarctic microenvironments evaluated by culture-dependent and independent methods

A Rego, F Raio, TP Martins, H Ribeiro… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial diversity from McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, the coldest desert on earth, has
become more easily assessed with the development of High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) …

Fundamental drivers for endolithic microbial community assemblies in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

V Meslier, MC Casero, M Dailey… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In hyperarid deserts, endolithic microbial communities colonize the rocks' interior as a
survival strategy. Yet, the composition of these communities and the drivers promoting their …

Cyanobacterial biofilms in monuments and caves

P Albertano - Ecology of cyanobacteria II: their diversity in space and …, 2012 - Springer
Biofilm-forming cyanobacteria are widespread inhabitants of exposed stones in
archaeological and historical sites and caves. Outdoors, these phototrophic biofilms are …