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American Society for Microbiology: A Manual of Biofilm related exercises. An online collection of exercises which can be conducted to illustrate the formation and properties of microbial biofilms.
Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman MT: What is biofilm?
! Alfred B. Cunningham, John E. Lennox, and Rockford J. Ross (eds.): Biofilms: The Hypertextbook. Under construction.
K.A. Dunn et al. (1997): Enhancement of leaf fossilization potential by bacterial biofilms. Abstract, Geology, 25: 1119-1122.
NEAL S. GUPTA and RICHARD D. PANCOST: Biomolecular and Physical Taphonomy of Angiosperm Leaf During Early Decay: Implications for Fossilization. Abstract, Palaios 2004; v. 19; no. 5; p. 428-440.
Wolfgang Elisabeth Krumbein, D.M. Paterson, Georgii Aleksandrovich Zavarzin: Fossil and Recent Biofilms: A Natural History of Life on Earth. Google books, Springer, 2003, 504 pages.
R.J.C. McLean et al.: Biofilm Growth and Illustrations of its Role in Mineral Formation Microbial Biofilms, PDF file.
Cindy E. Morris, INRA, Plant Pathology Station, Montfavet, France: THE IMPACT OF BIOFILMS ON THE ECOLOGY AND CONTROL OF EPIPHYTIC BACTERIA.
C.E. Morris, J. Monier and M. Jacques: Methods for Observing Microbial Biofilms Directly on Leaf Surfaces and Recovering Them for Isolation of Culturable Microorganisms. Abstract, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 1997, 1570-1576, Vol 63, No. 4.
Penny A. MORRIS, Dept. Natural Science, Univ of Houston-Downtown, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX: COMPARATIVE FOSSILIZATION PROCESSES FROM THREE HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENTS AND THE GEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS. Abstract, GSA Annual Meeting, Seattle, 2003.
Penny A. Morris et al.: MODERN MICROBIAL FOSSILIZATION PROCESSES AS SIGNATURES FOR INTERPRETING ANCIENT TERRESTRIAL AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL MICROBIAL FORMS. PDF file, Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIV (2003).
NASA Astrobiology Institute:
What are Microbial Mats? and
What are Stromatolites? See also:
Microbial Mat
and Stromatolite Image gallery. (Shockwave flash presentation).
Neal R. O'Brien et al.: Microbial taphonomic processes in the fossilization of insects and plants in the late Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado. Abstract, Rocky Mountain Geology, 2002; v. 37; no. 1; p. 1-11.
Yoichi Ezaki et al., Department of Geosciences, Osaka City University, Sugimoto, Osaka, Japan: Earliest Triassic Microbialite Micro- to Megastructures in the Huaying Area of Sichuan Province, South China: Implications for the Nature of Oceanic Conditions after the End-Permian Extinction. Abstract, PALAIOS, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 388–402.
Robert Riding: Microbial carbonates: the geological record of calcified bacterial-algal mats and biofilms. Abstract, Sedimentology, Volume 47,Page 179; 2000.
Jürgen Schieber, Department of Geology, University of Texas, Arlington: Microbial Mat Page.
Ben Waggoner & Brian Speer, Mineraltown.com: Bacteria: Fossil Record.
! Robert A. Spicer (1977): The pre-depositional formation of some leaf impressions. PDF file, Palaeontology, 20: 907–912.
! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Microbial mat, and
Biofilm. See also
here (the German Wikipedia
Biofilm website).
Philip R. Wilby et al.: Role of microbial mats in the fossilization of soft tissues. Abstract, Geology: Vol. 24, No. 9, pp. 787–790.
Yoichi Ezaki et al.,
Department of Geosciences, Osaka City University, Sugimoto, Osaka, Japan:
Earliest Triassic Microbialite Micro- to Megastructures in the Huaying Area of Sichuan Province, South China: Implications for the Nature of
Oceanic Conditions after the End-Permian Extinction. Abstract,
PALAIOS, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 388–402.
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