Biofilms in modern CaCO₃-supersaturated freshwater environments reveal viral proxies.

ABSTRACT: Biofilms are mucilaginous-organic layers produced by microbial activity including viruses. Growing biofilms form microbial mats which enhance sediment stability by binding particles with extracellular polymeric substances and promoting growth through nutrient cycling and organic matter accumulation. They preferentially develop at the sediment-water interface of both marine and non-marine environments, and upon the growing surfaces of modern tufa and travertine. In this context, however, little is known about the factors, environmental or anthropogenic, which affect viral communities in freshwater spring settings. To explore this issue, geochemical and metagenomic data were subjected to multidimensional analyses (Principal Component Analysis, Classical Multidimensional Scaling, Partial Leas

SUBMITTER: Slowakiewicz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11519349 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature