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Connecting molecular biomarkers, mineralogical composition, and microbial diver...
Palma, V; González-Pimentel, J; Jimenez-Morillo, N; Sauro, F; Gutiérrez-Patricio, S; De la Rosa, JM; Tomasi, I; Massironi, M; Onac, B; Tiago, ILanzarote (Canary Islands, Spain) is one of the best terrestrial analogs to Martian volcanology. Particularly, Lanzarote lava tubes may offer access to recognizably preserved chemical and morphological biosignatures valuable for astrobiology. By combining microbiological, mineralogical, and organic geochemistry tools, an indepth characterization of speleothems and associated microbial communities in lava tubes ...
Search of life in a Mars analogue site ‐ microbes and associated biosignatures ...
Miller, A; Gonzalez-Pimentel, JL; Caldeira, AT; Jiménez‐Morillo, N; Laiz, L; De La Rosa, JM; Candeias, A; Moissl‐Eichinger, C; Jo De WaeleSalt caves are scarce and poorly investigated mainly because they only exist in extremely remote and arid regions, such as the Atacama Desert (Chile). The Cordillera de la Sal (San Pedro de Atacama) is one of the most important rock salt karst areas in the world forming a Mars‐like landscape. The detection of microorganisms and biosignatures preserved in halite speleothems from these hypersaline cave systems is...
The Rare Actinobacterium Crossiella sp. Is a Potential Source of New Bioactive ...
Gonzalez-Pimentel, J; Moñino, I; Jurado, V; Laiz, L; Caldeira, A T; Saiz-Jimenez, CAntimicrobial resistance has become a global problem in recent decades. A gradual reduction in drug discoveries has led to the current antimicrobial resistance crisis. Caves and other subsurface environments are underexplored thus far, and they represent indispensable ecological niches that could offer new molecules of interest to medicine and biotechnology. We explored Spanish show caves to test the bioactivit...