An approach for collection of nearfield groundwater samples in submerged limestone caverns by Aaron L. Mills, Terrence N. Tysall, Janet S. Herman

“…To determine changes in water chemistry as water passes through the microbial mat, a simple device made from standard well screen and sealed with a rubber stopper and controllable vents was installed in a hole drilled in the wall of the cave passage. …”
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Biofilm Growth and Fossil Form by Beukes, N. J., Rothman, Daniel H., Bosak, Tanja, Petroff, Alexander Peter

“…Here, we show that the dynamics shaping conical stromatolites result from diffusive gradients within the overlying microbial mat. These gradients cause minerals to precipitate faster in regions of high curvature, resulting in measurable properties of the shapes of stromatolite laminas. …”
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Microscopic and geochemical analyses of the Tonian Longfengshan biota from the Luotuoling Formation (Hebei Province, North China) with taphonomic implications by Jing, Y, Chen, Z-Q, Anderson, RP, Wang, X, Zheng, Z, Feng, X

“…Petrographic analysis revealed that microbial mats existed in the fossil-bearing shale, implying that benthic macroalga Longfengshania attached its holdfast in a sticky microbial mat that encrusted the sea-bed. …”

Authigenic kaolinite and sudoite in sandstones from the Paleoproterozoic Franceville sub-basin (Gabon) by Aubineau, Jérémie, Bankole, Olabode M., Baron, Fabien, Grégoire, Brian, El Albani, Abderrazak

“…However, a full characterization of the clay mineralogy of the $\mathrm{FB}_{2}$ microbial mat-related structures (MRS) and associated host sediments (sandstones and black shales) is yet to be determined. …”
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Biogenicity of amorphous organic matter and bacteriomorph acritarchs preserved in wrinkle structures from the Ediacaran Cíjara Formation, Spain by J. Javier Álvaro, José E. Ortiz, Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Ignacio López‐Cilla, Yolanda Sánchez‐Palencia, Trinidad Torres

“…Raman spectrographs also allowed recognition of associated rare‐earth element‐rich phosphate (monazite) and subsidiary metal sulphide concentrations, and interpreted as a result of biosorption and/or mat trapping under normal oxic conditions. These microbial mat features represent cyanobacterial bloom‐forming Bavlinella acritarchs, which characterise eutrophic episodes in a semi‐enclosed retroarc basin sandwiched between an active Cadomian arc and West Gondwana.…”
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Fossil bubble structure related to microbial activity coeval with the middle Ediacaran Oceanic Oxygenation Event in the Tandilia System by Maria Julia Arrouy, Lucía Gómez-Peral, Victoria Penzo, Camila Ferreyra, Daniel G. Poiré

“…In addition, micro-stromatolites are observed in the unit associated with the microbial mats showing micro-columnar conical to domical morphologies. …”
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Establishment of a New Filamentous Cyanobacterial Genus, <i>Microcoleusiopsis</i> gen. nov. (Microcoleaceae, Cyanobacteria), from Benthic Mats in Open Channel, Jiangxi Province, Ch... by Ruozhen Geng, Wenke Li, Aimin Chao, Xiaoyu Guo, Hua Li, Gongliang Yu, Renhui Li

“…During the field survey for cyanobacterial resources in China, a filamentous cyanobacterial strain was successfully isolated from a microbial mat attached to rock surfaces of the Ganfu Channel, Jiangxi Province, China. …”
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Environmental controls on the distribution of bacterial membrane lipids by Matys, Emily D

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Signatures of life detected in images of rocks using neural network analysis demonstrate new potential for searching for biosignatures on the surface of Mars by Corenblit, D, Decaux, O, Delmotte, S, Toumazet, J-P, Arrignon, F, André, M-F, Darrozes, J, Davies, NS, Julien, F, Otto, T, Ramillien, G, Roussel, E, Steiger, J, Viles, H

“…Following that step, a convolutional neural network (CNN) approach has been tested to see whether it can conclusively detect MISS in images of rocks and sediment surfaces taken at different natural sites where present and ancient (fossil) microbial mat cracks and abiotic desiccation cracks were observed. …”

Ecosystem resilience and threshold response in the Galapagos coastal zone. by Seddon, A, Froyd, C, Leng, M, Milne, G, Willis, K

“…A combination of drier climatic conditions and a slight fall in RSL then resulted in a threshold response, from a mangrove community to a microbial mat. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Palaeoecological records can provide important information on the nature of non-linear behaviour by identifying thresholds within ecological systems, and in outlining responses to 'fast' and 'slow' environmental change between alternative stable states. …”

Lanthanide-Dependent Methanol Metabolism of a <i>Proteobacteria</i>-Dominated Community in a Light Lanthanide-Rich Deep Environment by Agnieszka Daszczyńska, Tomasz Krucoń, Robert Stasiuk, Marta Koblowska, Renata Matlakowska

“…Moreover, the accumulation of light lanthanides and the presence of methanol in the microbial mat were confirmed. This study is the first to show the occurrence of XoxF in the metagenome and metaproteome of a deep microbial community colonizing a fossil organic matter- and light lanthanide-rich sedimentary environment. …”
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Highly Metalliferous Potential of Framboidal and Nodular Pyrite Varieties from the Oil-Bearing Jurassic Bazhenov Formation, Western Siberia by Kirill S. Ivanov, Valery V. Maslennikov, Dmitry A. Artemyev, Aleksandr S. Tseluiko

“…Some nodule-like pyritized bituminous layers and pyrite nodules are similar to pyritized microbial mat fragments by the typical fine laminated structure. …”
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Testing the ancient marine redox record from oxygenic photosynthesis to photic zone euxina by French, Katherine L. (Katherine Louise)

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Microbial transcriptome profiling of black band disease in a Faviid coral during a seasonal disease peak by Arotsker, Luba, Kramarsky-Winter, Esti, Ben-Dov, Eitan, Kushmaro, Ariel

“…The etiology of black band disease (BBD), a persistent, globally distributed coral disease characterized by a dark microbial mat, is still unclear. A metatranscriptomics approach was used to unravel the roles of the major mat constituents in the disease process. …”
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Deciphering the depositional environment of the laminated Crato fossil beds (Early Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, North-eastern Brazil) by Heimhofer, U, Ariztegui, D, Lenniger, M, Hesselbo, S, Martill, D, Rios-Netto, A

“…A significant contribution from a benthonic, carbonate-secreting microbial mat community is not supported by these results. …”

Ediacaran discoidal impressions and related structures from Newfoundland, Canada and the Long Mynd, Shropshire, UK: their nature and biogenicity by Menon, L

“…It concludes that several Longmyndian discoidal forms are pseudofossils formed by sediment injection resulting from small-scale fluid escape inferred to be driven by microbial mat sealing. Turning to clearly biogenic impressions, comparison of the varied morphologies of holdfast discs associated with fronds preserved under ash and sand from several Newfoundland sites leads to a generic model of their architecture as consisting of enclosed chambers, a complex construction perhaps for strength or possibly symbiosis. …”

The distribution and abundance of archaeal tetraether lipids in U.S. Great Basin hot springs by Julienne J. eParaiso, Julienne J. eParaiso, Amanda J. eWilliams, Qiuyuan eHuang, Yuli eWei, Paul eDijkstra, Bruce A Hungate, Hailiang eDong, Brian P. Hedlund, Chuanlun eZhang, Chuanlun eZhang

“…We examined the iGDGT profiles and corresponding aqueous geochemistry in 40 hot spring sediment and microbial mat samples from the U.S. Great Basin with temperatures ranging from 31 to 95&#176;C and pH ranging from 6.8 to 10.7. …”
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Toxic Cyanobacteria in Svalbard: Chemical Diversity of Microcystins Detected Using a Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Precursor Ion Screening Method by Julia Kleinteich, Jonathan Puddick, Susanna A. Wood, Falk Hildebrand, H. Dail Laughinghouse IV, David A. Pearce, Daniel R. Dietrich, Annick Wilmotte

“…We applied this method to detect six different MC congeners in 8 out of 26 microbial mat samples of the Svalbard Archipelago in the Arctic. …”
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Microbial Communities and Their Predicted Metabolic Functions in Growth Laminae of a Unique Large Conical Mat from Lake Untersee, East Antarctica by Hyunmin Koo, Nazia Mojib, Joseph A. Hakim, Ian Hawes, Yukiko Tanabe, Dale T. Andersen, Asim K. Bej

“…In this study, we report the distribution of microbial taxa and their predicted metabolic functions observed in the top (U1), middle (U2), and inner (U3) decadal growth laminae of a unique large conical microbial mat from perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee of East Antarctica, using NextGen sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and bioinformatics tools. …”
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Contribution of Benthic Processes to the Growth of Ooids on a Low-Energy Shore in Cat Island, The Bahamas by Pruss, Sara B., Pruss, Sara, Summons, Roger, Newman, Sharon, Mariotti, Giulio, Summons, Roger E, Bosak, Tanja

“…Keywords: Pigeon Cay; grapestone; abrasion; carbonate precipitation; microbial mat…”
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