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Prokaryotic communities from a lava tube cave in La Palma Island (Spain) are in...
Gonzalez-Pimentel, J; Martin-Pozas, T; Jurado, V; Miller, A; Caldeira, A T; Fernandez-Lorenzo; Sanchez-Moral, S; Saiz-Jimenez, CLava caves differ from karstic caves in their genesis and mineral composition. Subsurface microbiology of lava tube caves in Canary Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, is largely unknown. We have focused the investigation in a representative lava tube cave, Fuente de la Canaria Cave, in La Palma Island, Spain, which presents different types of speleothems and colored microbial mats. Four samp...
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...
Colored microbial coatings in show caves from the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador): ...
Miller, A Z; García-Sánchez, A; Coutinho, M; Pereira, M; Gázquez, F; Calaforra, J; Forti, P; Martínez-Frías, J; Toulkeridis, T; Caldeira, A TeresaThe Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) have a unique ecosystem on Earth due to their outstanding biodiversity and geological features. This also extends to their subterranean heritage, such as volcanic caves, with plenty of secondary mineral deposits, including coralloid-type speleothems and moonmilk deposits. In this study, the bacterial communities associated with speleothems from two lava tubes of Santa Cruz Island...