Biomineralization processes in modern calcareous tufa: Possible roles of viruses, vesicles and extracellular polymeric substances (Corvino Valley – Southern Italy)

Between a Rock and a Soft Place: The Role of Viruses in Lithification of Modern Microbial Mats

(2020) Richard Allen White et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Tracking Organomineralization Processes from Living Microbial Mats to Fossil Microbialites

(2020) Inès Eymard et al.   Minerals

Fungi and viruses as important players in microbial mats

(2020) Cátia Carreira et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Newly-discovered interactions between bacteriophages and the process of calcium carbonate precipitation

(2020) Mirosław Słowakiewicz et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Active and diverse viruses persist in the deep sub-seafloor sediments over thousands of years

(2019) Lanlan Cai et al.   ISME Journal

Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole

(2019) Ann C. Gregory et al.   CELL

Origin of viruses: primordial replicators recruiting capsids from hosts

(2019) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Big Impact of the Tiny: Bacteriophage–Bacteria Interactions in Biofilms

(2019) Mads Frederik Hansen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Geomorphic and hydrological controls on groundwater dolocrete formation in the semi‐arid Hamersley Basin, northwest Australia

(2019) Caroline C. Mather et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Carbonate Precipitation in Mixed Cyanobacterial Biofilms Forming Freshwater Microbial Tufa

(2019) Payandi-Rolland et al.   Minerals

Characterization of microbial mats and halophilic virus-like particles in a eutrophic hypersaline lagoon (Vermelha Lagoon, RJ, Brazil)

(2019) S. Pennafirme et al.   Regional Studies in Marine Science

Molecular and Evolutionary Determinants of Bacteriophage Host Range

(2018) Patrick A. de Jonge et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Multiple processes acting from local to large geographical scales shape bacterial communities associated with Phormidium (cyanobacteria) biofilms in French and New Zealand rivers

(2018) Isidora Echenique-Subiabre et al.   Scientific Reports

Increased production of outer membrane vesicles by cultured freshwater bacteria in response to ultraviolet radiation

(2017) Juliana P. Gamalier et al.   MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Carbonate and silicate biomineralization in a hypersaline microbial mat (Mesaieed sabkha, Qatar): Roles of bacteria, extracellular polymeric substances and viruses

(2017) Edoardo Perri et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

A Student’s Guide to Giant Viruses Infecting Small Eukaryotes: From Acanthamoeba to Zooxanthellae

(2017) Steven Wilhelm et al.   Viruses-Basel

Growing spherulitic calcite grains in saline, hyperalkaline lakes: experimental evaluation of the effects of Mg-clays and organic acids

(2016) R. Mercedes-Martín et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Viral Lysis of Photosynthesizing Microbes As a Mechanism for Calcium Carbonate Nucleation in Seawater

(2016) John T. Lisle et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial and diagenetic steps leading to the mineralisation of Great Salt Lake microbialites

(2016) Aurélie Pace et al.   Scientific Reports

Counting Viruses and Bacteria in Photosynthetic Microbial Mats

(2015) Cátia Carreira et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The importance of microbial mats for dolomite formation in the Dohat Faishakh sabkha, Qatar

(2015) Marisa Brauchli et al.   CARBONATES AND EVAPORITES

Sedimentary facies analyses from nano- to millimetre scale exploring past microbial activity in a high-altitude lake (Lake Son Kul, Central Asia)

(2015) MURIEL PACTON et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Viruses Occur Incorporated in Biogenic High-Mg Calcite from Hypersaline Microbial Mats

(2015) Rutger De Wit et al.   PLoS One

In-depth study ofMollivirus sibericum, a new 30,000-y-old giant virus infectingAcanthamoeba

(2015) Matthieu Legendre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geochemical evidence of microbial activity within ooids

(2015) Mara R. Diaz et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Viral Impact on Prokaryotic and Microalgal Activities in the Microphytobenthic Biofilm of an Intertidal Mudflat (French Atlantic Coast)

(2015) Hélène Montanié et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Structure of large dsDNA viruses

(2014) Thomas Klose et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Stevensite in the modern thrombolites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia: A missing link in microbialite mineralization?

(2014) Robert V. Burne et al.   GEOLOGY

Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology

(2014) M. Legendre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial Vesicles in Marine Ecosystems

(2014) S. J. Biller et al.   SCIENCE

Viruses as new agents of organomineralization in the geological record

(2014) Muriel Pacton et al.   Nature Communications

Viruses: unlocking the greatest biodiversity on Earth

(2013) Curtis A. Suttle   GENOME

Silicified virus-like nanoparticles in an extreme thermal environment: implications for the preservation of viruses in the geological record

(2013) X. Peng et al.   Geobiology

2D Raman spectroscopy study of dolomite and cyanobacterial extracellular polymeric substances from Khor Al-Adaid sabkha (Qatar)

(2013) Carlos Paulo et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Observation of polyphosphate bodies and DNA during the cell division cycle ofSynechococcus elongatusPCC 7942

(2013) Y. Seki et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes

(2013) N. Philippe et al.   SCIENCE

Signatures of biologically influenced CaCo3and Mg-Fe silicate precipitation in hot springs: Case study from the Ruidian geothermal area, western Yunnan Province, China

(2013) Brian Jones et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Decoding tufa and travertine (fresh water carbonates) in the sedimentary record: The state of the art

(2013) Enrico Capezzuoli et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Microbially influenced formation of Mg-calcite and Ca-dolomite in the presence of exopolymeric substances produced by sulphate-reducing bacteria

(2013) Tomaso R. R. Bontognali et al.   TERRA NOVA

Membrane Vesicle Release in Bacteria, Eukaryotes, and Archaea: a Conserved yet Underappreciated Aspect of Microbial Life

(2012) Brooke L. Deatherage et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

A Bilayer-Couple Model of Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicle Biogenesis

(2012) J. W. Schertzer et al.   mBio

Carbonate organo-mineral micro- and ultrastructures in sub-fossil stromatolites: Marion lake, South Australia

(2011) E. PERRI et al.   Geobiology

Multi-scale study of the role of the biofilm in the formation of minerals and fabrics in calcareous tufa

(2011) Edoardo Perri et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Carbonate deposition in a fluvial tufa system: processes and products (Corvino Valley - southern Italy)

(2011) ELENA MANZO et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Biological Functions and Biogenesis of Secreted Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles

(2010) Adam Kulp et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Virus Silicification under Simulated Hot Spring Conditions

(2010) James R. Laidler et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Isoelectric points of viruses

(2010) B. Michen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Dolomite formation within microbial mats in the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

(2010) TOMASO R. R. BONTOGNALI et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Outer Membrane Vesicles of Helicobacter pylori TK1402 are Involved in Biofilm Formation

(2009) Hideo Yonezawa et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Looking for traces of life in minerals

(2009) Karim Benzerara et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Overview of biopolymer-induced mineralization: What goes on in biofilms?

(2009) Alan W. Decho   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats

(2008) Christophe Dupraz et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Characteristics and turnover of exopolymeric substances in a hypersaline microbial mat

(2008) Olivier Braissant et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Viriobenthos in freshwater and marine sediments: a review

(2008) ROBERTO DANOVARO et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Aerobic microbial dolomite at the nanometer scale: Implications for the geologic record

(2008) Mónica Sánchez-Román et al.   GEOLOGY

Microbes produce nanobacteria-like structures, avoiding cell entombment

(2008) Tomaso R.R. Bontognali et al.   GEOLOGY

Virus Mineralization at Low pH in the Rio Tinto, Spain

(2008) Jennifer E. Kyle et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Viruses in granitic groundwater from 69 to 450 m depth of the Äspö hard rock laboratory, Sweden

(2008) Jennifer E Kyle et al.   ISME Journal

Protein-based organelles in bacteria: carboxysomes and related microcompartments

(2008) Todd O. Yeates et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial effects on biofilm calcification, ambient water chemistry and stable isotope records in a highly supersaturated setting (Westerhöfer Bach, Germany)

(2008) Fumito Shiraishi et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Freshwater calcite precipitates fromin vitromesocosm flume experiments: a case for biomediation of tufas

(2008) MARTYN PEDLEY et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY