Lacustrine microbialites record evidence of their depositional environments in their
morphology, mineralogy and geochemistry. This synthesis reviews geochemical data both …

Abstract The Cuatro Ciénegas Basin (CCB) is a rare oasis in the Chihuahuan Desert in the
state of Coahuila, Mexico. It has a biological endemism similar to that of the Galapagos …

To date, it remains unclear how anthropogenic perturbations influence the dynamics of
microbial communities, what general patterns arise in response to disturbance, and whether …

Microbial mats are self-sustained, functionally complex ecosystems that make good models
for the understanding of past and present microbial ecosystems as well as putative …

Microbial interactions play a key role in ecosystem functioning, with nutrient availability as
an important determinant. Although phylogenetically distant bacteria and fungi commonly co …

Microbial mats are biologically diverse communities that are analogs to some of the earliest
ecosystems on Earth. In this study, we describe a unique transiently hypersaline microbial …

Viruses are the major drivers shaping microorganismal communities, and impact marine
biogeochemical cycling. They are affected by various environmental parameters, such as …

ABSTRACT The Cuatro Ciénegas Basin (CCB) is located in the Chihuahuan desert in the
Mexican state of Coahuila; it has been characterized as a site with high biological diversity …

Microbialites are sedimentary deposits formed by the metabolic interactions of microbes and
their environment. These lithifying microbial communities represent one of the oldest …

The ribosomal RNA (rrn) operon is a key suite of genes related to the production of protein
synthesis machinery and thus to bacterial growth physiology. Experimental evidence has …