Biomineralization in Cave Bacteria—Popcorn and Soda Straw Crystal Formations, Morphologies, and Potential Metabolic Pathways

Biomineralization in Cave Bacteria—Popcorn and Soda Straw Crystal Formations, Morphologies, and Potential Metabolic Pathways

Caves are extreme, often oligotrophic, environments that house diverse groups of microorganisms. Many of these microbes can perform microbiologically induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) to form crystalline secondary cave deposits known as speleothems. The urease family is a group of enzymes invol...

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Main Authors: Keegan Koning, Richenda McFarlane, Jessica T. Gosse, Sara Lawrence, Lynnea Carr, Derrick Horne, Nancy Van Wagoner, Christopher N. Boddy, Naowarat Cheeptham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
cave microorganisms
cave microbiology
geomicrobiology
MICP
urease
biomineralization
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.933388/full

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