Microbial mats are horizontally stratified microbial communities, exhibiting a structure
defined by physiochemical gradients, which models microbial diversity, physiological …

Understanding the role of biology in planetary evolution remains an outstanding challenge
to geobiologists. Progress towards unravelling this puzzle for Earth is hindered by the …

INTRODUCTION Vacuolar myelinopathy (VM) is a neurological disease characterized by
widespread vacuolization in the white matter of the brain. First diagnosed in 1994 in bald …

In this paper, the authors investigated the antifungal activity of silver (AgNPs), copper
(CuNPs and silver/copper (Ag/CuNPs) nanoparticles against two plant pathogenic fungi …

A total of 27 strains of Oculatella were isolated, characterized and sequenced, and analysed
phylogenetically with an additional environmental clone from the Atacama Desert and 10 …

The genus Arthrospira has a long history of being used as a food source in different parts of
the world. Its mass cultivation for production of food supplements and additives has …

Antarctica is a continent locked in ice, with almost 99.7% of current terrain covered by
permanent ice and snow, and clear evidence that, as recently as the Last Glacial Maximum …

There is a long‐standing belief that microbial organisms have unlimited dispersal
capabilities, are therefore ubiquitous, and show weak or absent latitudinal diversity …

The cyanobacterial genus Arthrospira appears very conserved and has been divided into
five main genetic clusters on the basis of molecular taxonomy markers. Genetic studies of …

This study investigated the diversity of cyanobacterial mat communities of three meltwater
ponds–Fresh, Orange and Salt Ponds, south of Bratina Island, McMurdo Ice Shelf …