Imaging biofilms using fluorescence in situ hybridization: seeing is believing

A Barbosa, S Miranda, NF Azevedo… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Biofilms are complex structures with an intricate relationship between the resident
microorganisms, the extracellular matrix, and the surrounding environment. Interest in …

Low energy subsurface environments as extraterrestrial analogs

RM Jones, JM Goordial, BN Orcutt - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Earth's subsurface is often isolated from phototrophic energy sources and characterized by
chemotrophic modes of life. These environments are often oligotrophic and limited in …

Metabolically diverse primordial microbial communities in Earth's oldest seafloor-hydrothermal jasper

D Papineau, Z She, MS Dodd, F Iacoviello, JF Slack… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The oldest putative fossils occur as hematite filaments and tubes in jasper-carbonate
banded iron formations from the 4280-to 3750-Ma Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec …

Low-temperature, shallow-water hydrothermal vent mineralization following the recent submarine eruption of Tagoro volcano (El Hierro, Canary Islands)

FJ González, B Rincón-Tomás, L Somoza… - Marine Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydrothermal iron (Fe)-rich sediments were recovered from the Tagoro underwater volcano
(Central Atlantic) that formed during the 2011–2012 volcanic event. Cruises in 2012 and …

When FLOW-FISH met FACS: Combining multiparametric, dynamic approaches for microbial single-cell research in the total environment

AC Pereira, A Tenreiro, MV Cunha - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
In environmental microbiology, the ability to assess, in a high-throughput way, single-cells
within microbial communities is key to understand their heterogeneity. Fluorescence in situ …

Microbial assemblage and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the 1.38 Ga Velkerri Formation, McArthur Basin, northern Australia

AJM Jarrett, GM Cox, JJ Brocks, E Grosjean… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The ca. 1.38 billion years (Ga) old Roper Group of the McArthur Basin, northern
Australia, is one of the most extensive Proterozoic hydrocarbon‐bearing units. Organic‐rich …

[HTML][HTML] Pervasive calcite veins and cleavage dilation in low-grade metamorphic rocks as a marker of lower Jurassic rift-basin margins: A signature of microbial …

S Fabbi, M Borrelli, G Innamorati, L Aldega… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2024 - Elsevier
We report herein for the first time the occurrence of low-grade metamorphic rocks dilated by
the growth of calcite veins induced by microbial communities inhabiting the cleavage …

On the biogenicity of Fe‐oxyhydroxide filaments in silicified low‐temperature hydrothermal deposits: Implications for the identification of Fe‐oxidizing bacteria in the …

KC Johannessen, N McLoughlin, PE Vullum… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microaerophilic Fe (II)‐oxidizing bacteria produce biomineralized twisted and branched
stalks, which are promising biosignatures of microbial Fe oxidation in ancient jaspers and …

Contrasting morphology and growth habits of Frutexites in Late Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin, northwestern Australia

F Champenois, AD George, KJ McNamara… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Frutexites‐like microstructures are described from the exhumed Late Devonian reef
complexes of the northern Canning Basin, Western Australia. Several high‐resolution …

Geochemical insights into formation of enigmatic ironstones from Rio Grande rise, South Atlantic Ocean

M Benites, JR Hein, K Mizell, KA Farley, J Treffkorn… - Marine Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Rio Grande Rise (RGR) is an intraplate oceanic elevation in the South Atlantic
Ocean that formed at a hotspot on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the Cretaceous. In …