Microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, algae and fungi, colonize natural building
stones. Bacteria are among the most relevant colonizers, as they impact substrates in …

Since the mass production of plastics began in the middle of the last century, plastic waste
and its accumulation in the marine environment is an issue of major current concern, with …

Biominerals deposition processes, also called biomineralisation, are intimately related to
biodeterioration on stone surfaces. They include complex processes not always completely …

Living organisms leave traces of DNA in the objects they colonize and contribute to the
microbiome of a given environment. The microbiome of cultural objects is an indicator of …

Members of candidate Asgardarchaeota superphylum appear to share numerous eukaryotic-
like attributes thus being broadly explored for their relevance to eukaryogenesis. On the …

Ectoine is an important natural secondary metabolite in halophilic microorganisms. It
protects cells against environmental stressors, such as salinity, freezing, drying, and high …

The present study was aimed at evaluating the cytotoxic potential of selected halophilic
bacterial metabolites. The use of the metabolomics approach in identifying the unexplored …

The Aspergillus niger exometabolome was recently investigated using advanced gas
chromatography in tandem with multivariate analysis, which allowed a metabolite biomarker …