Geo-Microbiology

All kinds of microbes, including Aspergillus can contribute actively to geological phenomena. Central to many such geomicrobial processes is the transformation of metals and minerals.

Microbes have a variety of properties that can effect changes in metal speciation, toxicity and mobility, as well as mineral formation, dissolution and deterioration. Such mechanisms are important components of natural biogeochemical cycles for metals as well as other associated elements in biomass, soil, rocks and minerals (e.g. sulfur and phosphorus, and metalloids, actinides and metal radionuclides).

Apart from being important in natural biosphere processes, metal and mineral transformations can have beneficial or detrimental consequences in a human context. Bioremediation is the application of biological systems to the clean-up of organic and inorganic pollution, with bacteria and fungi being the most important organisms for reclamation, immobilization or detoxification of metallic and radionuclide pollutants.


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    Author

    Year

  • Post-Chernobyl surveys of radiocaesium in soil, vegetation, wildlife and fungi in Great Britain

    Chaplow JS, Beresford NA, and Barnett CL

    2015

  • Phylogenetic diversity of culturable fungi in the Heshang Cave, central China

    Man, Baiying; Wang, Hongmei; Xiang, Xing, .Wang, RC (Wang, Ruicheng), Yun, Y (Yun, Yuan), Gong, LF (Gong, Linfeng).

    2015

  • Phylogenetic diversity of culturable fungi in the Heshang Cave, central China.

    Man B, Wang H, Xiang X, Wang R, Yun Y, Gong L.

    2015

  • Molecular characterization of microbial communities in bioaerosols of a coal mine by 454 pyrosequencing and real-time PCR

    Min Wei, Zhisheng Yu, Hongxun Zhang

    2015

  • Microbial communities in a coastal cave: Cova des Pas de Vallgornera (Mallorca, Western Mediterranean)

    Busquets, Antoni; Fornós, Joan J; Zafra, Freddy; Lalucat, Jorge; Merino, Antoni.

    2014

  • Cytotoxic compounds from the marine-derived fungus Aspergillus sp. recovered from the sediments of the Brazilian coast.

    Saraiva NN, Rodrigues BS, Jimenez PC, Guimarães LA, Torres MC, Rodrigues-Filho E, Pfenning LH, Abreu LM, Mafezoli J, de Mattos MC, Costa-Lotufo LV, de Oliveira MD.

    2014

  • Biosorption: current perspectives on concept, definition and application

    Marina Fomina, Geoffrey Michael Gadd.

    2014

  • Australian Dust Storm Associated with Extensive Aspergillus sydowii Fungal “Bloom” in Coastal Waters.

    Hallegraeff G1, Coman F, Davies C, Hayashi A, McLeod D, Slotwinski A, Whittock L, Richardson AJ.

    2014

  • Prevalence, persistence, and phenotypic variation of Aspergillus fumigatus in the outdoor environment in Manchester, UK, over a 2-year period.

    Alshareef F1, Robson GD.

    2014

  • Oxalate production by fungi: significance in geomycology, biodeterioration and bioremediation

    Geoffrey Michael Gadd, Jaleh Bahri-Esfahani, Qianwei Li, Young Joon Rhee, Zhan Wei, Marina Fomina, Xinjin Liang

    2014

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