ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2012
The role of microbes in the formation of modern and ancient phosphatic mineral deposits.
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- Biogeochemical Niche of Magnetotactic Cocci Capable of Sequestering Large Polyphosphate Inclusions in the Anoxic Layer of the Lake Pavin Water Column.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
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- Subseafloor life and its biogeochemical impacts.Nature communications · 2019Review
- The effects of marine eukaryote evolution on phosphorus, carbon and oxygen cycling across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2018Article
- Polyphosphate-Accumulating Bacteria: Potential Contributors to Mineral Dissolution in the Oral Cavity.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2018Article
- Orbitally paced phosphogenesis in Mediterranean shallow marine carbonates during the middle Miocene Monterey event.Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems : G(3) · 2016Article
- Single-Cell (Meta-)Genomics of a Dimorphic Candidatus Thiomargarita nelsonii Reveals Genomic Plasticity.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
- Nucleation of Fe-rich phosphates and carbonates on microbial cells and exopolymeric substances.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
- A review of phosphate mineral nucleation in biology and geobiology.Calcified tissue international · 2013Review
- The marine phosphorus cycle.Frontiers in microbiology · 2013Article
- Calcium orthophosphates (CaPOProgress in biomaterialsArticle
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Abstract
The formation of marine phosphatic mineral deposits remains incompletely understood, despite decades of research. The involvement of bacteria in this process has long been suspected, and both modern and ancient associations between bacteria and phosphorites have been recorded. Only recently has a specific bacterial metabolic process associated with the formation of phosphorites been discovered. Recent studies demonstrate that polyphosphate utilization by sulfide-oxidizing bacteria results in the rapid precipitation of apatite - providing at least a partial mechanism to explain the close spatial correlation between accumulations of sulfide-oxidizing bacteria and modern phosphorites. Possible fossilized bacteria are known from ancient phosphatic mineral deposits. Potentially, the fossilized cells represent the remains of bacteria that induced the formation of those phosphorites. However, robust criteria for the recognition of these bacteria have yet to be identified.
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