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ArticleNature communications2018

Barium bioaccumulation by bacterial biofilms and implications for Ba cycling and use of Ba proxies.

Francisca Martinez-Ruiz, Fadwa Jroundi, Adina Paytan, Isabel Guerra-Tschuschke, María Del Mar Abad, María Teresa González-Muñoz

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Organic-mineral interfacial chemistry drives heterogeneous nucleation of Sr-rich (BaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  5. Organic interfaces enhance strontium content of marine barite.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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6 authors.

Francisca Martinez-RuizInstituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC-UGR), Avda. de las Palmeras 4, 18100, Granada, Armilla, Spain. fmruiz@ugr.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8301-4453
Fadwa JroundiDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18002, Granada, Spain.
Adina PaytanInstitute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Isabel Guerra-TschuschkeCentro de Instrumentación Científica (CIC), University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18071, Granada, Spain.
María Del Mar AbadCentro de Instrumentación Científica (CIC), University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18071, Granada, Spain.
María Teresa González-MuñozDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva, 18002, Granada, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ba proxies have been broadly used to reconstruct past oceanic export production. However, the precise mechanisms underlying barite precipitation in undersaturated seawater are not known. The link between bacterial production and particulate Ba in the ocean suggests that bacteria may play a role. Here we show that under experimental conditions marine bacterial biofilms, particularly extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), are capable of bioaccumulating Ba, providing adequate conditions for barite precipitation. An amorphous P-rich phase is formed at the initial stages of Ba bioaccumulation, which evolves into barite crystals. This supports that in high productivity regions where large amounts of organic matter are subjected to bacterial degradation, the abundant EPS would serve to bind the necessary Ba and form nucleation sites leading to barite precipitation. This also provides new insights into barite precipitation and opens an exciting field to explore the role of EPS in mineral precipitation in the ocean.

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BacteriaBariumBiofilmsBiopolymersSeawaterBariumBiopolymers

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