Ooid shoals, sedimentary structures consisting of carbonate grains, are often used as
proxies to explore changes in seawater chemistry over Earth history. Despite their …

Modern microbial mats are potential analogues of some of Earth's earliest ecosystems.
Excellent examples can be found in Shark Bay, Australia, with mats of various morphologies …

Here we review the application of molecular biological approaches to mineral precipitation
in modern marine microbialites. The review focuses on the nearly two decades of nucleotide …

Modern stromatolites thrive only in selected locations in the world. Socompa Lake, located in
the Andean plateau at 3570 masl, is one of the numerous extreme Andean microbial …

In this study, we report the distribution of microbial taxa and their predicted metabolic
functions observed in the top (U1), middle (U2), and inner (U3) decadal growth laminae of a …

Microbial mat communities possess extensive taxonomic and functional diversity, which
drive high metabolic rates and rapid cycling of major elements. Modern microbial mats …

Marine cyanobacterial mats were cultured on coastal sediments (Nivå Bay, Øresund,
Denmark) for over three years in a closed system. Carbonate particles formed in two …

Modern microbialites are complex microbial communities that interface with abiotic factors to
form carbonate-rich organosedimentary structures whose ancestors provide the earliest …

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

With the increasing occurrence and severity of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHAB)
at the global scale, there is an urgent need for rapid, accurate, accessible, and cost-effective …