Microbial mats are multilayered, self-sustaining biofilms composed of diverse microorganisms—bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes and viruses—tightly bound in extracellular polymers. They form at the ...

Introduction. Microbial mats, stromatolites and MISS : an overview -- The geobiological concept -- Microbially induced sedimentary structures (The scholarly definition ; Taxonomic relation of MISS to ...

The outcrop in Morocco where Associate Professor Rowan Martindale noticed the wrinkle structures formed by microbial communities. Note that the large ripples on the rock slab were formed by turbidity ...

Bottom dwellers have never been more spectacular. The Chinese-led research team found spiky, bright marine worms darting through fields of crimson tubes, itself another kind of worm, poking out of the ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas were acidic and rich in iron, and volcanic activity roared across a barren ...

Microbial secretion systems are at the core of bacterial physiology, facilitating processes such as protein export, ...

For more than a century, the industrial production of chemicals, fuels, foods, and medicines has relied on wild-type ...