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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.
Loren E. Babcock et al. (2006): Starting on PDF page 4: The "Preservation Paradox": Microbes as a Key to Exceptional Fossil Preservation in the Kirkpatrick Basalt (Jurassic), Antarctica. PDF file, The Sedimentary Record, 4. Silica-rich hydrothermal water apparently worked to fossilize organic remains rapidly and produce a "freeze-frame" of macroscopic and microscopic life forms. Microbes seem to have played a vital role in this processes.
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.
A.W. Decho (2000): Microbial biofilms in intertidal systems: an overview. In PDF, Continental Shelf Research, 20: 1257-1273.
K.A. Dunn et al. (1997): Enhancement of leaf fossilization potential by bacterial biofilms. Abstract, Geology, 25: 1119-1122.
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.
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).
! E.G. Nisbet and N.H. Sleep (2001): The habitat and nature of early life. PDF file, Nature, 409.
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.
R.P. Reid et al. (2000): The role of microbes in accretion, lamination and early lithification of modern marine stromatolites. In PDF, Nature.
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.
A.C. Scott and M.E. Collinson (2003), Geology Department, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham: Non-destructive multiple approaches to interpret the preservation of plant fossils: implications for calcium-rich permineralizations. Journal of the Geological Society, 160: 857-862. See also here.
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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