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Geochemistry. A hard life for cyanobacteria.

Robert Riding

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Robert Riding: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. rriding@utk.edu

PMID: 22539710 DOI: 10.1126/science.1221055

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Biofilms

Calcium Carbonate

Carbonates

Cyanobacteria

Inclusion Bodies

Lakes

Carbonates

Calcium Carbonate

Journal Article Comment

Geochemistry. Gasping for air in Permian hard times.Geochemistry and Life.A Hard Day's Night: Cyanobacteria in Diel Cycles.A hard knock life.Geochemistry. Life on an anaerobic planet.Geochemistry. Life in the Early Triassic ocean.The social life of cyanobacteria.Crustal geochemistry: archaean geochemistry.Oxygen evolution from extremophilic cyanobacteria confined in hard biocoatings.Groundwater geochemistry and identification of hydrogeochemical processes in a hard rock region, Southern India.

Cyanobacteria blooms induced precipitation of calcium carbonate and dissolution of silica in a subtropical lagoon, Florida Bay, USA.Coexisting living stromatolites and infaunal metazoans.High calcium and strontium uptake by the green microalga Tetraselmis chui is related to micropearl formation and cell growth.Micropearls and other intracellular inclusions of amorphous calcium carbonate: an unsuspected biomineralization capacity shared by diverse microorganisms.16S rDNA-based analysis reveals cosmopolitan occurrence but limited diversity of two cyanobacterial lineages with contrasted patterns of intracellular carbonate mineralization.A New Gene Family Diagnostic for Intracellular Biomineralization of Amorphous Ca Carbonates by Cyanobacteria.Metagenome-based diversity analyses suggest a significant contribution of non-cyanobacterial lineages to carbonate precipitation in modern microbialites.