ArticleCurrent microbiology2012
Endolithic phototrophs in built and natural stone.
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- Cast from the Past? Microbial Diversity of a Neolithic Stone Circle.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Lithic bacterial communities: ecological aspects focusing onFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Influence of bacterial biopolymers on physical properties of experimental limestone blocks.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2022Article
- Characterization of black patina from the Tiber River embankments using Next-Generation Sequencing.PloS one · 2020Article
- Aquatic urban ecology at the scale of a capital: community structure and interactions in street gutters.The ISME journal · 2018Article
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- Bioweathering Potential of Cultivable Fungi Associated with Semi-Arid Surface Microhabitats of Mayan Buildings.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
- Regulatory RNAs in photosynthetic cyanobacteria.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2015Review
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Abstract
Lichens, algae and cyanobacteria have been detected growing endolithically in natural rock and in stone buildings in various countries of Australasia, Europe and Latin America. Previously these organisms had mainly been described in natural carbonaceous rocks in aquatic environments, with some reports in siliceous rocks, principally from extremophilic regions. Using various culture and microscopy methods, we have detected endoliths in siliceous stone, both natural and cut, in humid temperate and subtropical climates. Such endolithic growth leads to degradation of the stone structure, not only by mechanical means, but also by metabolites liberated by the cells. Using in vitro culture, transmission, optical and fluorescence microscopy, and confocal laser scanning microscopy, both coccoid and filamentous cyanobacteria and algae, including Cyanidiales, have been identified growing endolithically in the facades of historic buildings built from limestone, sandstone, granite, basalt and soapstone, as well as in some natural rocks. Numerically, the most abundant are small, single-celled, colonial cyanobacteria. These small phototrophs are difficult to detect by standard microscope techniques and some of these species have not been previously reported within stone.
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