Microbial lithification in marine stromatolites and hypersaline mats.

By C. Dupraz, P. Visscher. Trends in Microbiology, 2005

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Environmental Chemistry, Paleontology

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In Biomaterials

1. A. Decho
2. T. Gutierrez
3. Maria Dittrich
4. J. Stolz
5. Jonathan Franks
6. R. Reid
7. P. Visscher
8. Olivier Braissant

In Environmental Chemistry

1. A. Decho
2. Jonathan Franks
3. J. Stolz
4. Maria Dittrich
5. T. Gutierrez
6. R. Reid
7. C. Dupraz
8. Edoardo Perri

In Paleontology

1. A. Decho
2. J. Stolz
3. Jonathan Franks
4. Maria Dittrich
5. T. Gutierrez
6. R. Reid
7. C. Dupraz
8. Edoardo Perri

Citations in the corpus

• Microbial biomineralization processes forming modern Ca:Mg carbonate stromatolites (2010, background): “Dupraz & Visscher (2005) indicate two crucial factors driving precipitation: (i) the environmental control on organic matter consumption (mainly EPS); and (ii) the saturation state of the solution with respect to the carbonate minerals, depending upon ion activity product, solubility product and pH.”
• Carbonate and silicate biomineralization in a hypersaline microbial mat (Mesaieed sabkha, Qatar): Roles of bacteria, extracellular polymeric substances and viruses (2018, background): “When microbial enzymes degrade EPS, the cations are liberated and carbonate minerals may precipitate (Dupraz & Visscher, 2005; Glunk et al., 2011).”
• Bacterial biomineralization: new insights from Myxococcus-induced mineral precipitation (2010, background): “Heterogeneous nucleation may also occur on bacterial exopolymeric substances (EPS) (Braissant et al. 2003, 2007; Dupraz & Visscher 2005).”
• Flat laminated microbial mat communities (2009, background): “Flat laminated microbial mats are often the sites of steep oxygen gradients that can transition from supersaturation (N500 μM), just below the sediment/water interface, to total anoxiawithin less than a millimeter (Dupraz and Visscher, 2005).”
• Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPSs) in Ocean Systems (2017, background): “Microbial communities drive the basic alkalinity engine, which when coupled to the organic matrix of mats, results in biogeomineral precipitation (Dupraz and Visscher, 2005).”
• Formation and Taphonomy of Human Footprints in Microbial Mats of Present-Day Tidal-flat Environments: Implications for the Study of Fossil Footprints (2009, background): “In addition, microbial mats may quickly lithify by the precipitation of calcium carbonate (eg, Krumbein and Cohen, 1977 ; Chafetz and Buczynski, 1992 ; Dupraz et al, 2004 ; Dupraz and Visscher, 2005 ), and consequently enhance the preservation potential of footprints and other traces.”
• Magnetite as a prokaryotic biomarker: A review (2010, background): “cleation of crystals [Pentecost, 1985; Mann et al., 1988a, 1988b; Dupraz and Visscher, 2005]; (2) concentrate positively charged cations at the negatively charged areas of the”
• Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats (2009, methodology): “…formation in hypersaline and/or alkaline lakes (Arp et al., 1998, 1999a,b, 2003; Wright, 1999; Dupraz et al., 2004; Wright and Wacey, 2005; Dupraz and Visscher, 2005), freshwater rivers and lakes (Freytet and Verrecchia, 1998, 1999), open marine stromatolites in the Bahamas (Dill et al.,…”
• Calcium carbonate precipitation by cyanobacterial polysaccharides (2010, background): “Templates are most probable the reorganized acid binding sites, which enable CaCO3 to precipitate (Dupraz & Visscher 2005).”
• Metals, minerals and microbes: geomicrobiology and bioremediation. (2010, neutral): “Key components of carbonate biomineralization in microbial mat systems are the ‘alkalinity’ engine (microbial metabolism and environmental conditions which affect the calcium carbonate saturation index) and microbially produced extracellular polymeric substances which provide a template for…”
• Water and astrobiology (2007, background): “Recent studies have produced models for stromatolite formation in open marine systems and lithification in shallow hypersaline lakes that are highly relevant for interpreting the rock record and searching for extraterrestrial life (Dupraz and Visscher, 2005).”
• Photosynthesis, Respiration and Exopolymer Calcium-Binding in Biofilm Calcification (Westerhöfer and Deinschwanger Creek, Germany) (2008, background): “These studies suggest that sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) play an important role in the gross calcification, while CO 2 assimilation by photosynthesis has only little or no affect (for more detail, see Dupraz and Visscher 2005 ).”
• Carbonate Precipitation through Microbial Activities in Natural Environment, and Their Potential in Biotechnology: A Review (2016, background): “After EPS are degraded; however, Ca2+ may locally reach high concentrations and thus favor precipitation of calcium carbonate (Reid et al., 2000; Dupraz and Visscher, 2005).”
• Sulfate reducing bacteria in microbial mats: Changing paradigms, new discoveries (2006, background): “The structure of EPS is also modified through partial degradation by bacteria (Dupraz and Visscher, 2005), especially SRB (Visscher et al.”