ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2013
Eukaryotic organisms in extreme acidic environments, the río tinto case.
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- Profiling microbial communities in an extremely acidic environment influenced by a cold natural carbon dioxide spring: A study of the Mefite in Ansanto Valley, Southern Italy.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- Metataxonomy of acid mine drainage microbiomes from the Santa Catarina Carboniferous Basin (Southern Brazil).Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2023Article
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- Extreme environments offer an unprecedented opportunity to understand microbial eukaryotic ecology, evolution, and genome biology.Nature communications · 2023Review
- High Variation in Protist Diversity and Community Composition in Surface Sediment of Hot Springs in Himalayan Geothermal Belt, China.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Complex Trophic Interactions in an Acidophilic Microbial Community.Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Isolation and Genome Analysis of an Amoeba-Associated BacteriumFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Extremely Acidic Eukaryotic (Micro) Organisms: Life in Acid Mine Drainage Polluted Environments-Mini-Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity in hydrothermal continental systems.Archives of microbiology · 2021Review
- Eukaryotic organisms of continental hydrothermal systems.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2019Review
- Assessment of water quality from the Blue Lagoon of El Cobre mine in Santiago de Cuba: a preliminary study for water reuse.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019Article
- Isolation, Characterization, and Metal Response of Novel, Acid-Tolerant Penicillium spp. from Extremely Metal-Rich Waters at a Mining Site in Transbaikal (Siberia, Russia).Microbial ecology · 2018Article
- Unexpected fungal communities in the Rehai thermal springs of Tengchong influenced by abiotic factors.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2018Article
- Potential biotechnological capabilities of cultivable mycobiota from carwash effluents.MicrobiologyOpen · 2017Article
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- Bacterial, Archaeal, and Eukaryotic Diversity across Distinct Microhabitats in an Acid Mine Drainage.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
A major issue in microbial ecology is to identify the limits of life for growth and survival, and to understand the molecular mechanisms that define these limits. Thus, interest in the biodiversity and ecology of extreme environments has grown in recent years for several reasons. Some are basic and revolve around the idea that extreme environments are believed to reflect early Earth conditions. Others are related to the biotechnological potential of extremophiles. In this regard, the study of extremely acidic environments has become increasingly important since environmental acidity is often caused by microbial activity. Highly acidic environments are relatively scarce worldwide and are generally associated with volcanic activity or mining operations. For most acidic environments, low pH facilitates metal solubility, and therefore acidic waters tend to have high concentrations of heavy metals. However, highly acidic environments are usually inhabited by acidophilic and acidotolerant eukaryotic microorganisms such as algae, amoebas, ciliates, heliozoan and rotifers, not to mention filamentous fungi and yeasts. Here, we review the general trends concerning the diversity and ecophysiology of eukaryotic acidophilic microorganims, as well as summarize our latest results on this topic in one of the largest extreme acidic rivers, Río Tinto (SW, Spain).
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