Pavilion Lake Microbialites: Morphological, Molecular and Biochemical Evidence for a Cold-Water Transition to Colonial Aggregates

Pavilion Lake Microbialites: Morphological, Molecular and Biochemical Evidence for a Cold-Water Transition to Colonial Aggregates

The presence of microbialite structures in a freshwater, dimictic mid-latitudelake and their establishment after the last ice age about 10,000 years ago is puzzling.Freshwater calcite microbialites at Pavilion Lake, British Columbia, Canada, consist of acomplex community of microorganisms that colle...

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Main Authors: Allyson Brady, Louis N. Irwin, Donnie Reid, Olivia Chan, Stephen B. Pointing, Darlene Lim, Bernard Laval, Carol Turse, Marina Resendes de Sousa António, Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-12-01
Series:Life
Subjects:
microbialite
community
stromatolite
quorum sensing
biomass
biodiversity
ecology
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/3/1/21

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