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Microbial Biomineralization

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Microbial biomineral formation

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Microbial biomineralization describes the formation and deposition of minerals directly mediated or indirectly influenced by microorganisms (Mann, 2001; Weiner and Dove, 2003; Ehrlich, 1999). A huge variety of minerals results from individual biomineralization pathways linked to the phylogeny and metabolic activity of the microorganisms involved (Weiner and Dove, 2003; Minsky et al., 2002). Moreover, microbial biominerals may differ distinctly from their inorganically formed equivalents in shape, size, crystallinity, isotopic, and trace element composition (Bazylinski et al., 2007; Haferburg and Kothe, 2007; Takahashi et al., 2007; Weiner and Dove, 2003). A compilation of microbial biominerals and their source organisms is given in Table 1.

Microbial Biomineralization. Table 1 Overview of minerals formed by microbial biomineralization and the organism(s) involved
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Heim, C. (2011). Microbial Biomineralization. In: Reitner, J., Thiel, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geobiology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9212-1_33

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