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16S rDNA-based analysis reveals cosmopolitan occurrence but limited diversity of two cyanobacterial lineages with contrasted patterns of intracellular carbonate mineralization

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A Mars 2020 Perseverance SuperCam Perspective on the Igneous Nature of the Máaz Formation at Jezero Crater and Link With Séítah, Mars

A New Gene Family Diagnostic for Intracellular Biomineralization of Amorphous Ca Carbonates by Cyanobacteria

scientific article published on 07 February 2022

A unique skeletal microstructure of the deep-sea micrabaciid scleractinian corals

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Alteration of submarine basaltic glass from the Ontong Java Plateau: A STXM and TEM study

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Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Granules Form Within an Intracellular Compartment in Calcifying Cyanobacteria

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

An Early-Branching Freshwater Cyanobacterium at the Origin of Plastids.

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An early-branching microbialite cyanobacterium forms intracellular carbonates

scientific article published in April 2012

Aqueous alteration in the Northwest Africa 817 (NWA 817) Martian meteorite

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Bacteria in the Tatahouine meteorite: nanometric-scale life in rocks.

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Bacterial diversity and carbonate precipitation in the giant microbialites from the highly alkaline Lake Van, Turkey

scientific article published on 15 June 2005

Biogenic versus metamorphic origins of diverse microtubes in 2.7Gyr old volcanic ashes: Multi-scale investigations

Biogeochemical processes captured by carbon isotopes in redox-stratified water columns: a comparative study of four modern stratified lakes along an alkalinity gradient

scientific article published in 2023

Biologically controlled precipitation of calcium phosphate by Ramlibacter tataouinensis

article published in 2004

Biomineralization Patterns of Intracellular Carbonatogenesis in Cyanobacteria: Molecular Hypotheses

Biomineralization of iron-phosphates in the water column of Lake Pavin (Massif Central, France)

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Calcium-Phosphate Biomineralization Induced by Alkaline Phosphatase Activity in Escherichia coli: Localization, Kinetics, and Potential Signatures in the Fossil Record

scholarly article by Julie Cosmidis et al published 21 December 2015 in Frontiers in Earth Science

Carbonate Detection With SuperCam in Igneous Rocks on the Floor of Jezero Crater, Mars

scientific article published in June 2023

Characterization of Ca-phosphate biological materials by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) at the Ca L2,3-, P L2,3- and C K-edges

scientific article published on 8 October 2014

Characterization of Pustular Mats and Related Rivularia-Rich Laminations in Oncoids From the Laguna Negra Lake (Argentina).

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Comparative metagenomics unveils functions and genome features of microbialite-associated communities along a depth gradient

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Comparative mineralogy, organic geochemistry and microbial diversity of the Autun black shale and Graissessac coal (France)

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Coprolites of Late Triassic carnivorous vertebrates from Poland: An integrative approach

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Corrigendum to “Low temperature hydrothermal oil and associated biological precursors in serpentinites from Mid-Ocean Ridge” [Lithos 178 (2013) 84–95]

scholarly article

Creating Habitable Zones, at all Scales, from Planets to Mud Micro-Habitats, on Earth and on Mars

article published in 2007

Cyanobacterial calcification in modern microbialites at the submicrometer scale

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Cyanobacterial formation of intracellular Ca-carbonates in undersaturated solutions

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Description of Gloeomargarita lithophora gen. nov., sp. nov., a thylakoid-bearing basal-branching cyanobacterium with intracellular carbonates, and proposal for Gloeomargaritales ord. nov.

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Ectosymbiotic bacteria at the origin of magnetoreception in a marine protist

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Effect of iron metal and siderite on the durability of simulated archeological glassy material

scholarly article by Anne Michelin published in November 2013

Emerging Frontiers in Geomicrobiology

scientific article published in 2015

Evidence of high Ca uptake by cyanobacteria forming intracellular CaCO3 and impact on their growth

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Evolution of the macromolecular structure of sporopollenin during thermal degradation

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Experimental Colonization and Alteration of Orthopyroxene by the Pleomorphic BacteriaRamlibacter tataouinensis

Experimental investigation of the stability of Fe-rich carbonates in the lower mantle

scientific article published in 2012

Extracellular iron biomineralization by photoautotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria

scientific article published on 10 July 2009

Fe-bearing phases in modern lacustrine microbialites from Mexico

scholarly article

Formation and transformations of Fe-rich serpentines by asteroidal aqueous alteration processes: A nanoscale study of the Murray chondrite

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Formation of Cell-Iron-Mineral Aggregates by Phototrophic and Nitrate-Reducing Anaerobic Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacteria

Formation of single domain magnetite by green rust oxidation promoted by microbial anaerobic nitrate-dependent iron oxidation

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Garnet-filled trails associated with carbonaceous matter mimicking microbial filaments in Archean basalt

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Geochemical Conditions Allowing the Formation of Modern Lacustrine Microbialites

Geomicrobiological study of modern microbialites from Mexico: towards a better understanding of the ancient fossil record

Graphite formation by carbonate reduction during subduction

Green rust formation during Fe(II) oxidation by the nitrate-reducing Acidovorax sp. strain BoFeN1.

scientific article published on 13 January 2012

Impact of biomineralization on the preservation of microorganisms during fossilization: An experimental perspective

scholarly article by Jinhua Li et al published August 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Impact of the cyanobacterium Gloeomargarita lithophora on the geochemical cycles of Sr and Ba

scholarly article

In Vitro and in Silico Evidence of Phosphatase Diversity in the Biomineralizing Bacterium Ramlibacter tataouinensis

scientific article published in January 2017

In situ characterization of aluminum-containing mineral-microorganism aqueous suspensions using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy

scientific article published in November 2004

In vitro synthesis of amorphous Mg-, Ca-, Sr- and Ba-carbonates: What do we learn about intracellular calcification by cyanobacteria?

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Influence of uranium on bacterial communities: a comparison of natural uranium-rich soils with controls.

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Intracellular Ca-carbonate biomineralization is widespread in cyanobacteria

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Intracellular biomineralization in bacteria

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Investigating Microbe-Mineral Interactions: Recent Advances in X-Ray and Electron Microscopy and Redox-Sensitive Methods

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Involvement of microbial mats in early fossilization by decay delay and formation of impressions and replicas of vertebrates and invertebrates

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Iron biomineralization by anaerobic neutrophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria

article by Jennyfer Miot et al published February 2009 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Iron mineralogy across the oxycline of a lignite mine lake

scholarly article

Key gene networks that control magnetosome biomineralization in magnetotactic bacteria

scientific article published in 2022

Looking for traces of life in minerals

scientific article published in 2009

Low temperature hydrothermal oil and associated biological precursors in serpentinites from Mid-Ocean Ridge

Magnetotactic Coccus Strain SHHC-1 Affiliated to Alphaproteobacteria Forms Octahedral Magnetite Magnetosomes

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Magnetotactic bacteria as a new model for P sequestration in the ferruginous Lake Pavin

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Metagenome-based diversity analyses suggest a significant contribution of non-cyanobacterial lineages to carbonate precipitation in modern microbialites

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Metasomatism and graphite formation at a lithological interface in Malaspina (Alpine Corsica, France)

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Micro- and nano-textural evidence of Ti(–Ca–Fe) mobility during fluid–rock interactions in carbonaceous lawsonite-bearing rocks from New Zealand

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Microbially influenced formation of 2,724-million-year-old stromatolites

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Microfossils

scientific article published in 2009

Microscopy evidence of bacterial microfossils in phosphorite crusts of the Peruvian shelf: Implications for phosphogenesis mechanisms

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Microscopy study of biologically mediated alteration of natural mid-oceanic ridge basalts and magnetic implications

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Mineralogical Diversity in Lake Pavin: Connections with Water Column Chemistry and Biomineralization Processes

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Molecular phylogeny and ultrastructure of Aphelidium aff. melosirae (Aphelida, Opisthosporidia)

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Morphological preservation of carbonaceous plant fossils in blueschist metamorphic rocks from New Zealand.

scientific article published on 2 February 2012

Multidisciplinary evidences that Synechocystis PCC6803 exopolysaccharides operate in cell sedimentation and protection against salt and metal stresses

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Multiscale characterization of pyritized plant tissues in blueschist facies metamorphic rocks

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Nanobacteria-like calcite single crystals at the surface of the Tataouine meteorite

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Nanometer-scale characterization of exceptionally preserved bacterial fossils in Paleocene phosphorites from Ouled Abdoun (Morocco).

scientific article published on 10 January 2013

Nanometer-scale chemical heterogeneities of black carbon materials and their impacts on PCB sorption properties: soft X-ray spectromicroscopy study

scientific article published in October 2006

Nanoscale detection of organic signatures in carbonate microbialites

scientific article (publication date: 20 June 2006)

Nanoscale environments associated with bioweathering of a Mg-Fe-pyroxene

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Nanoscale study of As biomineralization in an acid mine drainage system

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Nanotextures of aragonite in stromatolites from the quasi-marine Satonda crater lake, Indonesia

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Organic matter heterogeneities in 2.72Ga stromatolites: Alteration versus preservation by sulfur incorporation

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Planktonic microbial communities from microbialite‐bearing lakes sampled along a salinity‐alkalinity gradient

scientific article published in 2022

Precipitation of amorphous CaCO3 (aragonite-like) by cyanobacteria: A STXM study of the influence of EPS on the nucleation process

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Preservation of protein globules and peptidoglycan in the mineralized cell wall of nitrate-reducing, iron(II)-oxidizing bacteria: a cryo-electron microscopy study

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Prokaryotic and eukaryotic community structure in field and cultured microbialites from the alkaline Lake Alchichica (Mexico)

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Proteome Response of a Metabolically Flexible Anoxygenic Phototroph to Fe(II) Oxidation

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Pulsed laser-induced heating of mineral phases: Implications for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy combined with Raman spectroscopy

article published in 2019

Quantification of the ferric/ferrous iron ratio in silicates by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy at the Fe L2,3 edges

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Search for microbial signatures within human and microbial calcifications using soft x-ray spectromicroscopy

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Selective Uptake of Alkaline Earth Metals by Cyanobacteria Forming Intracellular Carbonates

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Significance, mechanisms and environmental implications of microbial biomineralization

Single-Cell Resolution of Uncultured Magnetotactic Bacteria via Fluorescence-Coupled Electron Microscopy

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Soft X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy at the molecular environmental science beamline at the Advanced Light Source

article by H. Bluhm et al published February 2006 in Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena

Solenicola setigera is the first characterized member of the abundant and cosmopolitan uncultured marine stramenopile group MAST-3.

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Specific carbonate-microbe interactions in the modern microbialites of Lake Alchichica (Mexico)

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Sphaerotilus natans, a Neutrophilic Iron-Related Sheath-Forming Bacterium: Perspectives for Metal Remediation Strategies

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Study of the crystallographic architecture of corals at the nanoscale by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy and transmission electron microscopy

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Synchrotron X-ray studies of heavy metal mineral-microbe interactions

TEM study of a silicate-carbonate-microbe interface prepared by focused ion beam milling

scholarly article

The 2.1 Ga old Francevillian biota: biogenicity, taphonomy and biodiversity

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

The Iron Wheel in Lac Pavin: Interaction with Phosphorus Cycle

The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the Mars 2020 Rover: Science Objectives and Mast-Unit Description

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The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

The asteroid-comet continuum from laboratory and space analyses of comet samples and micrometeorites

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The desert of Tataouine: an extreme environment that hosts a wide diversity of microorganisms and radiotolerant bacteria

scientific article published in March 2006

The gammaproteobacterium Achromatium forms intracellular amorphous calcium carbonate and not (crystalline) calcite

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

The hidden role of dissolved organic carbon in the biogeochemical cycle of carbon in modern redox-stratified lakes

scientific article published in 2023

The link between biomineralization and fossilization of bacteria: Insights from field and experimental studies

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Transformation of vivianite by anaerobic nitrate-reducing iron-oxidizing bacteria.

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Ultrastructural and chemical study of modern and fossil sporoderms by Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy (STXM)

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Variations in cometary dust composition from Giotto to Rosetta, clues to their formation mechanisms

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Water, Life, and Planetary Geodynamical Evolution

Widespread formation of intracellular calcium carbonates by the bloom‐forming cyanobacterium Microcystis

scientific article published on 28 December 2022

XANES, Raman and XRD study of anthracene-based cokes and saccharose-based chars submitted to high-temperature pyrolysis

scholarly article in Carbon, vol. 48 no. 9, August 2010

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