Sentence examples for microbial mat communities from inspiring English sources

We found numerous vents in the cave that issue saline, thermal, sulfidic water and host distinct microbial mat communities.

The Roman Baths appear to have extensive microbial mat communities submerged beneath the water surface, some with striking blue-green patches.

However, it is evident that the microbial mat communities present in the Roman Baths are required for microbial growth and survival.

Fossils known as Girvanella and Morania may represent members of microbial mat communities.

Molecular approaches, such as denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and 16S RNA phylogenies, have been used to measure the diversity of cyanobacteria within the photic zone of the microbial mat communities.

These cyanobacterial strains wereoriginally isolated from microbial mat communities in Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A.

Recent community diversity studies [37], [48] [50] of microbial iron mat communities similar to the one at LD have found that significant fractions (10 25%) of SSU rRNA clones clustered within the Gallionellaceae.

Our cultivation-based attempts at enriching heterotrophic Leptothrix and Sphaerotilus spp. from LD iron mats also yielded few results, confirming other studies that the heterotrophic species of Leptothrix or Sphaerotilus are not common members of microbial iron mat communities [1], [12].

At cold seeps, a variety of geologically diverse, reducing habitats can be distinguished by the presence of microbial mats or macro/megafaunal communities (see Sibuet and Olu, 1998; Levin, 2005).

The community studied is the microbial mat consisting primarily of Lyngbya that inhabits the Pacific marine intertidal, Baja California, Mexico.

Principal component analysis was used to analyze the major geochemical factors responsible for shaping the microbial community structure in the microbial mat of both the hot springs.