Endolithic microbes of rocks, their community, function and survival strategies

Multiple techniques point to oxygenic phototrophs dominating the Isopora palifera skeletal microbiome

(2021) Francesco Ricci et al.   CORAL REEFS

A more accurate definition of water characteristics in stone materials for an improved understanding and effective protection of cultural heritage from biodeterioration

(2021) Yong-Hui Li et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

An internal recycling mechanism between ammonia/ammonium and nitrate driven by ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria (AOA, AOB, and Comammox) and DNRA on Angkor sandstone monuments

(2021) Xinghua Ding et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Microbiome characteristics and the key biochemical reactions identified on stone world cultural heritage under different climate conditions

(2021) Xinghua Ding et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Trophic Selective Pressures Organize the Composition of Endolithic Microbial Communities From Global Deserts

(2020) Evan B. Qu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Differential Colonization and Succession of Microbial Communities in Rock and Soil Substrates on a Maritime Antarctic Glacier Forefield

(2020) Isaac Garrido-Benavent et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Succession and Colonization Dynamics of Endolithic Phototrophs within Intertidal Carbonates

(2020) Daniel Roush et al.   Microorganisms

Understanding the Response of Nitrifying Communities to Disturbance in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2020) Maria Monteiro et al.   Microorganisms

Pigment production by cold-adapted bacteria and fungi: colorful tale of cryosphere with wide range applications

(2020) Wasim Sajjad et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years

(2020) Yuki Morono et al.   Nature Communications

Rock structure drives the taxonomic and functional diversity of endolithic microbial communities in extreme environments

(2020) Emine Ertekin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial deterioration and sustainable conservation of stone monuments and buildings

(2020) Xiaobo Liu et al.   Nature Sustainability

Diversity and Colonization Strategies of Endolithic Cyanobacteria in the Cold Mountain Desert of Pamir

(2020) Nataliia Khomutovska et al.   Microorganisms

Effects of Ocean Acidification on Coral Endolithic Bacterial Communities in Isopora palifera and Porites lobata

(2020) Sung-Yin Yang et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Endolithic Microbial Carbon Cycling in East Antarctica

(2020) Natalie A. Tyler et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The effect of 16S rRNA region choice on bacterial community metabarcoding results

(2019) Yu. S. Bukin et al.   Scientific Data

Biochemical reactions and mechanisms involved in the biodeterioration of stone world cultural heritage under the tropical climate conditions

(2019) Guoxia Zhang et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Culture-dependent diversity of bacteria from Laohugou glacier, Qilian Mts., China and their resistance against metals

(2019) Barkat Ali et al.   JOURNAL OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGY

Altitude and fungal diversity influence the structure of Antarctic cryptoendolithic Bacteria communities

(2019) Claudia Coleine et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Down to the bone: the role of overlooked endolithic microbiomes in reef coral health

(2019) Mathieu Pernice et al.   ISME Journal

Dissolution of Cu and Zn-bearing ore by indigenous iron-oxidizing bacterial consortia supplemented with dried bamboo sawdust and variations in bacterial structural dynamics: A new concept in bioleaching

(2019) Wasim Sajjad et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

MORPHOLOGICAL, BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF CULTURABLE EPILITHIC AND ENDOLITHIC BACTERIA FROM ROCKS OF AYUBIA (MURREE), LOWER HIMALAYA, PAKISTAN

(2018) I. KHAN   APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Endolithic microbial habitats as refuges for life in polyextreme environment of the Atacama Desert

(2018) Jacek Wierzchos et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2018) Victoria Meslier et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Lithoautotrophical oxidation of elemental sulfur by fungi including Fusarium solani isolated from sandstone Angkor temples

(2018) Hai-Bo Xu et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Water is a critical factor in evaluating and assessing microbial colonization and destruction of Angkor sandstone monuments

(2018) Xiaobo Liu et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex

(2018) Akira Ijiri et al.   Science Advances

Alteration of rocks by endolithic organisms is one of the pathways for the beginning of soils on Earth

(2018) Nikita Mergelov et al.   Scientific Reports

Viable cyanobacteria in the deep continental subsurface

(2018) Fernando Puente-Sánchez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Non-rainfall water input determines lichen and cyanobacteria zonation on limestone bedrock in the Negev Highlands

(2017) Giora J. Kidron et al.   FLORA

More wide occurrence and dominance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea than bacteria at three Angkor sandstone temples of Bayon, Phnom Krom and Wat Athvea in Cambodia

(2017) Han Meng et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Highly structured prokaryote communities exist within the skeleton of coral colonies

(2017) Vanessa R Marcelino et al.   ISME Journal

Lipid membrane modulation and pigmentation: A cryoprotection mechanism in Arctic pigmented bacteria

(2017) Archana Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGY

Xerotolerant bacteria: surviving through a dry spell

(2017) Pedro H. Lebre et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Euendoliths versus ambient inclusion trails from Early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu Formation, South China

(2017) Xiao-guang Yang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Mineral Ecology: Surface Specific Colonization and Geochemical Drivers of Biofilm Accumulation, Composition, and Phylogeny

(2017) Aaron A. Jones et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Community Structure and the Persistence of Cyanobacterial Populations in Salt Crusts of the Hyperarid Atacama Desert from Genome-Resolved Metagenomics

(2017) Kari M. Finstad et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Global Diversity of Desert Hypolithic Cyanobacteria

(2017) Donnabella C. Lacap-Bugler et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Discovery of carotenoid red-shift in endolithic cyanobacteria from the Atacama Desert

(2017) Petr Vítek et al.   Scientific Reports

Raman imaging in geomicrobiology: endolithic phototrophic microorganisms in gypsum from the extreme sun irradiation area in the Atacama Desert

(2016) Petr Vítek et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Functional interactions of archaea, bacteria and viruses in a hypersaline endolithic community

(2016) Alexander Crits-Christoph et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative activity and functional ecology of permafrost soils and lithic niches in a hyper-arid polar desert

(2016) Jacqueline Goordial et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative Metagenomic Analysis Reveals Mechanisms for Stress Response in Hypoliths from Extreme Hyperarid Deserts

(2016) Phuong Thi Le et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Higher diversity and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea than bacteria detected at the Bayon Temple of Angkor Thom in Cambodia

(2016) Han Meng et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Nearing the cold-arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica

(2016) Jacqueline Goordial et al.   ISME Journal

Pigments from UV-resistant Antarctic bacteria as photosensitizers in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

(2016) N. Órdenes-Aenishanslins et al.   JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY

Prevalence of potential nitrogen-fixing, green sulfur bacteria in the skeleton of reef-building coralIsopora palifera

(2016) Shan-Hua Yang et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Endolithic microbial diversity in sandstone and granite from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2016) Stephen D. J. Archer et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Inorganic polyphosphate in the microbial world. Emerging roles for a multifaceted biopolymer

(2016) Tomás Albi et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Multi-marker metabarcoding of coral skeletons reveals a rich microbiome and diverse evolutionary origins of endolithic algae

(2016) Vanessa Rossetto Marcelino et al.   Scientific Reports

Phylogenetic and Functional Substrate Specificity for Endolithic Microbial Communities in Hyper-Arid Environments

(2016) Alexander Crits-Christoph et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Actinobacteria from Arid and Desert Habitats: Diversity and Biological Activity

(2016) Fatemeh Mohammadipanah et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Soil and Hypolithic Microbial Communities in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2016) Sean T. S. Wei et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Temporal dynamics of hot desert microbial communities reveal structural and functional responses to water input

(2016) Alacia Armstrong et al.   Scientific Reports

Ecology and biogeochemistry of cyanobacteria in soils, permafrost, aquatic and cryptic polar habitats

(2015) Thulani P. Makhalanyane et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Three-dimensional structure and cyanobacterial activity within a desert biological soil crust

(2015) Hagai Raanan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The three steps of the carbonate biogenic dissolution process by microborers in coral reefs (New Caledonia)

(2015) J. S. Grange et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Autoendoliths: a distinct type of rock-hosted microbial life

(2015) J. Marlow et al.   Geobiology

Aquifer environment selects for microbial species cohorts in sediment and groundwater

(2015) Laura A Hug et al.   ISME Journal

Inner Workings: Endoliths hunker down and survive in extreme environments:

(2015) Amber Dance   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Benthic perspective on Earth’s oldest evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis

(2015) Stefan V. Lalonde et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptation strategies of endolithic chlorophototrophs to survive the hyperarid and extreme solar radiation environment of the Atacama Desert

(2015) Jacek Wierzchos et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

In situ metabolism in halite endolithic microbial communities of the hyperarid Atacama Desert

(2015) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The lithic microbial ecosystems of Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys

(2014) Asunción De Los Ríos et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Impact-Generated Endolithic Habitat Within Crystalline Rocks of the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Canada

(2014) Alexandra Pontefract et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The isotopic composition of authigenic chromium in anoxic marine sediments: A case study from the Cariaco Basin

(2014) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mineral Microniches Control the Diversity of Subsurface Microbial Populations

(2014) Aaron A. Jones et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Comparative analysis of cyanobacteria inhabiting rocks with different light transmittance in the Mojave Desert: a Mars terrestrial analogue

(2014) Heather D. Smith et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Settlement and colonization of epi-endobenthic communities on calcareous substrata in an underwater archaeological site

(2014) Edoardo Casoli et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

The spatial structures of hypolithic communities in the Dry Valleys of East Antarctica

(2014) Asunción de los Ríos et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Global rates of marine sulfate reduction and implications for sub-sea-floor metabolic activities

(2014) M. W. Bowles et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular and culture dependent characterization of endolithic bacteria in two beach sand samples and description of Rhizobium endolithicum sp. nov.

(2013) B. Parag et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

TOWARD THE MINIMUM INNER EDGE DISTANCE OF THE HABITABLE ZONE

(2013) Andras Zsom et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Microbial diversity and the presence of algae in halite endolithic communities are correlated to atmospheric moisture in the hyper-arid zone of the Atacama Desert

(2013) Courtney K. Robinson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phototrophic Community in Gypsum Crust from the Atacama Desert Studied by Raman Spectroscopy and Microscopic Imaging

(2013) Petr Vítek et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Bacterial Communities in Pigmented Biofilms Formed on the Sandstone Bas-Relief Walls of the Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom, Cambodia

(2013) Asako Kusumi et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Mapping the Complex Morphology of Cell Interactions with Nanowire Substrates Using FIB-SEM

(2013) Rafał Wierzbicki et al.   PLoS One

Remote life-detection criteria, habitable zone boundaries, and the frequency of Earth-like planets around M and late K stars

(2013) J. F. Kasting et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional ecology of an Antarctic Dry Valley

(2013) Y. Chan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt

(2013) M. A. Lever et al.   SCIENCE

Exoplanet Habitability

(2013) S. Seager   SCIENCE

Salt deliquescence drives photosynthesis in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

(2013) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Physical ecology of hypolithic communities in the central Namib Desert: The role of fog, rain, rock habitat, and light

(2013) Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Intercontinental Dispersal of Bacteria and Archaea by Transpacific Winds

(2012) David J. Smith et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Miniaturized Raman System and Detection of Traces of Life in Halite from the Atacama Desert: Some Considerations for the Search for Life Signatures on Mars

(2012) Petr Vítek et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Endolithic Bacterial Communities in Dolomite and Limestone Rocks from the Nanjiang Canyon in Guizhou Karst Area (China)

(2012) Yuan Tang et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Ignimbrite as a substrate for endolithic life in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert: Implications for the search for life on Mars

(2012) Jacek Wierzchos et al.   ICARUS

Erratum: Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial ecology of expanding oxygen minimum zones

(2012) Jody J. Wright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey: the ecology of Dry Valley edaphic microbial communities

(2011) Charles K Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Seasonal Flows on Warm Martian Slopes

(2011) A. S. McEwen et al.   SCIENCE

Carotenoid Pigmentation in Antarctic Heterotrophic Bacteria as a Strategy to Withstand Environmental Stresses

(2010) Markus Dieser et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

The microbe-mineral environment and gypsum neogenesis in a weathered polar evaporite

(2010) C. S. COCKELL et al.   Geobiology

Microbial colonization of Ca-sulfate crusts in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert: implications for the search for life on Mars

(2010) J. WIERZCHOS et al.   Geobiology

Biomarkers of Endolithic Communities within Gypsum Crusts (Southern Tunisia)

(2010) Nunzia Stivaletta et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Hypolithic Microbial Community of Quartz Pavement in the High-Altitude Tundra of Central Tibet

(2010) Fiona K. Y. Wong et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

(2010) S. Craig Cary et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Stable Isotope Measurements of Martian Atmospheric CO2 at the Phoenix Landing Site

(2010) Paul B. Niles et al.   SCIENCE

Carbonate Crystals Precipitated by Freshwater Bacteria and Their Use as a Limestone Consolidant

(2009) D. V. Zamarreno et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microclimate and limits to photosynthesis in a diverse community of hypolithic cyanobacteria in northern Australia

(2009) Christopher R. Tracy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Highly specialized microbial diversity in hyper-arid polar desert

(2009) S. B. Pointing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Silicate weathering in anoxic marine sediments

(2008) K. Wallmann et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Endolithic Microbial Communities in Polar Desert Habitats

(2008) Christopher R. Omelon   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

DEWFALL AS A WATER SOURCE FREQUENTLY ACTIVATES THE ENDOLITHIC CYANOBACTERIAL COMMUNITIES IN THE GRANITES OF TAYLOR VALLEY, ANTARCTICA1

(2008) Burkhard Büdel et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Unusual symbiotic relationships between microendolithic phototrophic organisms and azooxanthellate cold-water corals from Chilean fjords

(2008) G Försterra et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Hydrated silicate minerals on Mars observed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CRISM instrument

(2008) John F. Mustard et al.   NATURE

Phyllosilicate Diversity and Past Aqueous Activity Revealed at Mawrth Vallis, Mars

(2008) J. L. Bishop et al.   SCIENCE

Endolithic fungi: A possible killer for the mass extinction of Cretaceous dinosaurs

(2008) YiMing Gong et al.   Science in China. Series D, Earth sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences