ArticleMicrobiology (Reading, England)2024
Diversity pattern and antibiotic activity of microbial communities inhabiting a karst cave from Costa Rica.
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- Microbial community succession along the entrance to distant zone in karst cave ecosystem: community assembly and distance decay patterns in weathered rock and sediment habitats.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Differences in composition and potential function of the bacterial communities of cave- and surface-dwelling Mexican salamanders.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
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Abstract
The studies of cave bacterial communities worldwide have revealed their potential to produce antibiotic molecules. In Costa Rica, ~400 caves have been identified; however, their microbial diversity and biotechnological potential remain unexplored. In this work, we studied the chemical composition and microbial diversity of a Costa Rican cave (known as the Amblipigida cave) located in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Additionally, through culture-dependent methods, we evaluated the potential of its microbiota to produce antibiotic molecules. Mineralogical and elemental analyses revealed that the Amblipigida cave is primarily composed of calcite. However, small variations in chemical composition were observed as a result of specific conditions, such as light flashes or the input of organic matter. The 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding revealed an extraordinarily high microbial diversity (with an average Shannon index of ~6.5), primarily comprising bacteria from the phyla Pseudomonadota, Actinomycetota, Firmicutes and Acidobacteriota, with the family
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