Diversity of cultivable bacteria involved in the formation of macroscopic microbial colonies (Cave silver) on the walls of a cave in Slovenia

Karstic caves often support white, yellow, grey or pink microbial colonies that are termed ‘cave silver’ by speleologists. Using various sample pre-treatments and culture media, a wide variety of bacteria associated with these colonies were recovered from a cave in Slovenia, Pajsarjeva jama. Decreas...

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Main Authors: Blagajana Herzog Velikonja, Rok Tkavc, Lejla Pašić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of South Florida Libraries 2014-01-01
Series:International Journal of Speleology
Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol43/iss1/5/