Faint ridges in Moroccan rock have revealed an ancient mystery: signs of microbial life deep below the sea surface, where ...

Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University ...

The subterranean environment of caves presents a unique laboratory for studying microbial ecology. In these isolated, oligotrophic habitats, microorganisms engage in diverse metabolic processes and ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

Introduction. Microbial mats, stromatolites and MISS : an overview -- The geobiological concept -- Microbially induced sedimentary structures (The scholarly definition ; Taxonomic relation of MISS to ...

Microbial ecology is the study of microbes in the environment, their roles in ecosystem processes, and their interactions with one another and other biota. In this course, the Mountain Research ...