Discovery of a silicate rock-boring organism and macrobioerosion in fresh water

Discovery of a silicate rock-boring organism and macrobioerosion in fresh water

Macrobioerosion, the boring of rock and other hard substrates by living organisms, is used as a marker of marine paleo-environments. Here, Bolotov et al. describe a rock-boring mussel and its associated community from freshwater in Myanmar, demonstrating that macrobioerosion is a wider phenomenon.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ivan N. Bolotov, Olga V. Aksenova, Torkild Bakken, Christopher J. Glasby, Mikhail Yu. Gofarov, Alexander V. Kondakov, Ekaterina S. Konopleva, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Artyom A. Lyubas, Yu Wang, Andrey Yu. Bychkov, Agniya M. Sokolova, Kitti Tanmuangpak, Sakboworn Tumpeesuwan, Ilya V. Vikhrev, J. Bruce H. Shyu, Than Win, Oleg S. Pokrovsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05133-4

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05133-4

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