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A New Niche for Anoxygenic Phototrophs as Endoliths.

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A comparative genomics approach to understanding the biosynthesis of the sunscreen scytonemin in cyanobacteria

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A culture-independent study of free-living fungi in biological soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau: their diversity and relative contribution to microbial biomass

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A fog-irrigated soil substrate (FISS) system unifies and optimizes cyanobacterial biocrust inoculum production

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

A regulatory linkage between scytonemin production and hormogonia differentiation in <i>Nostoc punctiforme</i> ⬇️

scientific article published on 06 May 2022

A symbiotic nutrient exchange within the cyanosphere microbiome of the biocrust cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria are structured by geography in biological soil crusts across North American arid lands

article by Yevgeniy Marusenko et al published 2013 in Ecological processes

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea respond positively to inorganic nitrogen addition in desert soils

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An ATP-Grasp Ligase Involved in the Last Biosynthetic Step of the Iminomycosporine Shinorine in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 ⬇️

scientific article published on September 2, 2011

Bacteria increase arid-land soil surface temperature through the production of sunscreens

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Belnapia moabensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an alphaproteobacterium from biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau, USA.

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Beneficial Cyanosphere Heterotrophs Accelerate Establishment of Cyanobacterial Biocrust

scientific article published on 11 August 2021

Benthic bacterial diversity from freshwater tufas of the Iberian Range (Spain)

scientific article published on 02 February 2012

Biological Soil Crusts as Modern Analogues for the Archean Continental Biosphere: Insights from Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SCYTONEMIN, A CYANOBACTERIAL SHEATH PIGMENT1

CHARACTERIZATION OF A MARINE CYANOBACTERIUM THAT BORES INTO CARBONATES AND THE REDESCRIPTION OF THE GENUS MASTIGOCOLEUS(1)

scientific article published on 08 May 2012

Carbon fixation from mineral carbonates

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Comparative genomic analyses of the cyanobacterium, Lyngbya aestuarii BL J, a powerful hydrogen producer.

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Cyanobacterial biocrust diversity in Mediterranean ecosystems along a latitudinal and climatic gradient

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

Cydrasil 3, a curated 16S rRNA gene reference package and web app for cyanobacterial phylogenetic placement

publication published on 02 September 2021

Description of Deinococcus oregonensis sp. nov., from biological soil crusts in the Southwestern arid lands of the United States of America

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Description of Hymenobacter arizonensis sp. nov. from the southwestern arid lands of the United States of America ⬇️

scientific article published on September 18, 2012

Description of Patulibacter americanus sp. nov., isolated from biological soil crusts, emended description of the genus Patulibacter Takahashi et al. 2006 and proposal of Solirubrobacterales ord. nov. and Thermoleophilales ord. nov.

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Description of Patulibacter americanus sp. nov., isolated from biological soil crusts, emended description of the genus Patulibacter Takahashi et al. 2006 and proposal of Solirubrobacterales ord. nov. and Thermoleophilales ord. nov.

scientific article published in February 2009

Description of Pseudomonas asuensis sp. nov. from biological soil crusts in the Colorado plateau, United States of America

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Differential Responses of Dinitrogen Fixation, Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria and Ammonia Oxidation Reveal a Potential Warming-Induced Imbalance of the N-Cycle in Biological Soil Crusts

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Diversity and mineral substrate preference in endolithic microbial communities from marine intertidal outcrops (Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico)

scientific article published in 2017

Diversity and mineral substrate preference in endolithic microbial communities from marine intertidal outcrops (Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico)

Diversity in hydrogen evolution from bidirectional hydrogenases in cyanobacteria from terrestrial, freshwater and marine intertidal environments ⬇️

scientific article published on July 4, 2012

Draft Genome Assembly of a Filamentous Euendolithic (True Boring) Cyanobacterium, Mastigocoleus testarum Strain BC008.

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Dual use of solar power plants as biocrust nurseries for large-scale arid soil restoration

Dyadobacter

scientific article published in 2015

Dyadobacter crusticola sp. nov., from biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau, USA, and an emended description of the genus Dyadobacter Chelius and Triplett 2000.

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Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust

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Estimates of global cyanobacterial biomass and its distribution

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Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria

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Exophiala crusticola anam. nov. (affinity Herpotrichiellaceae), a novel black yeast from biological soil crusts in the Western United States

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Export of nitrogenous compounds due to incomplete cycling within biological soil crusts of arid lands.

scientific article published on March 2007

Exposure to predicted precipitation patterns decreases population size and alters community structure of cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts from the Chihuahuan Desert

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Extensive Turnover of Compatible Solutes in Cyanobacteria Revealed by Deuterium Oxide (D2O) Stable Isotope Probing

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

Extreme cellular adaptations and cell differentiation required by a cyanobacterium for carbonate excavation

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Functional genomics of novel secondary metabolites from diverse cyanobacteria using untargeted metabolomics.

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Gene expression patterns associated with the biosynthesis of the sunscreen scytonemin in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 in response to UVA radiation

scientific article published on 08 May 2009

Genome of the cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus FGP-2, a photosynthetic ecosystem engineer of arid land soil biocrusts worldwide

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Giant Bacteria

High impact of bacterial predation on cyanobacteria in soil biocrusts

scientific article published in 2022

Hydrogen export from intertidal cyanobacterial mats: sources, fluxes and the influence of community composition

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Isolation of a significant fraction of non-phototroph diversity from a desert Biological Soil Crust

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Large Blooms of Bacillales (Firmicutes) Underlie the Response to Wetting of Cyanobacterial Biocrusts at Various Stages of Maturity.

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Long-read metagenomics of soil communities reveals phylum-specific secondary metabolite dynamics

scientific article published on 18 November 2021

Long-term manipulations of intact microbial mat communities in a greenhouse collaboratory: simulating earth's present and past field environments

scientific article published in January 2002

Microbial Nursery Production of High-Quality Biological Soil Crust Biomass for Restoration of Degraded Dryland Soils

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Microbial diversity of a heavily polluted microbial mat and its community changes following degradation of petroleum compounds.

scientific article published on April 2002

Microbial diversity of benthic mats along a tidal desiccation gradient

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Microbial excavation of solid carbonates powered by P-type ATPase-mediated transcellular Ca2+ transport

scientific article (publication date: 14 December 2010)

Microbial ultraviolet sunscreens ⬇️

scientific article published on 03 October 2011

Microstructure and Weathering Processes Within Biological Soil Crusts

Modestobacter versicolor sp. nov., an actinobacterium from biological soil crusts that produces melanins under oligotrophy, with emended descriptions of the genus Modestobacter and Modestobacter multiseptatus Mevs et al. 2000.

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Mutational Studies of Putative Biosynthetic Genes for the Cyanobacterial Sunscreen Scytonemin in Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133.

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

Niche Partitioning with Temperature among Heterocystous Cyanobacteria (Scytonema spp., Nostoc spp., and Tolypothrix spp.) from Biological Soil Crusts

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs mediate dinitrogen fixation in biological soil crusts during early crust formation

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Optimizing the Production of Nursery-Based Biological Soil Crusts for Restoration of Arid Land Soils

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Patterns and Controls on Nitrogen Cycling of Biological Soil Crusts

scientific article published in 2016

Patterns of diversity for fungal assemblages of biological soil crusts from the southwestern United States ⬇️

scientific article published on November 28, 2011

Picobenthic cyanobacterial populations revealed by 16S rRNA-targeted in situ hybridization

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Polyphasic characterization of benthic, moderately halophilic, moderately thermophilic cyanobacteria with very thin trichomes and the proposal of Halomicronema excentricum gen. nov., sp. nov.

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Possible nitrogen fertilization of the early Earth Ocean by microbial continental ecosystems.

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Powerful fermentative hydrogen evolution of photosynthate in the cyanobacterium Lyngbya aestuarii BL J mediated by a bidirectional hydrogenase

scientific article published on 10 December 2014

Rainfall pulse regime drives biomass and community composition in biological soil crusts

scientific article published in 2022

Relevance of ammonium oxidation within biological soil crust communities

scientific article published on January 2005

SALINITY-DEPENDENT LIMITATION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND OXYGEN EXCHANGE IN MICROBIAL MATS

scholarly article by Ferran Garcia-Pichel et al published April 1999 in Journal of Phycology

Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing cyanosphere

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Sphingomonas mucosissima sp. nov. and Sphingomonas desiccabilis sp. nov., from biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau, USA.

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Succession and Colonization Dynamics of Endolithic Phototrophs within Intertidal Carbonates

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Temperature drives the continental-scale distribution of key microbes in topsoil communities.

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The Compositionally Distinct Cyanobacterial Biocrusts From Brazilian Savanna and Their Environmental Drivers of Community Diversity

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

The Trait Repertoire Enabling Cyanobacteria to Bloom Assessed through Comparative Genomic Complexity and Metatranscriptomics

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

The Widely Conserved Cluster Is Involved in Precursor Transport to the Periplasm during Scytonemin Synthesis in

scientific article published in 2018

The community and phylogenetic diversity of biological soil crusts in the Colorado Plateau studied by molecular fingerprinting and intensive cultivation

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The emergence of microbiome centres

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The evolution of a capacity to build supra-cellular ropes enabled filamentous cyanobacteria to colonize highly erodible substrates

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The global response of Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 to UVA stress, assessed in a temporal DNA microarray study.

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

The prokaryotic diversity of biological soil crusts in the Sonoran Desert (Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ).

scientific article published on October 2005

Three distinct clades of cultured heterocystous cyanobacteria constitute the dominant N2-fixing members of biological soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau, USA.

scientific article published in April 2007

Timing the Evolutionary Advent of Cyanobacteria and the Later Great Oxidation Event Using Gene Phylogenies of a Sunscreen

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What Could Explain δ13C Signatures in Biocrust Cyanobacteria of Drylands?

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

What's in a name? The case of cyanobacteria

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

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