A likely role for anoxygenic photosynthetic microbes in the formation of ancient stromatolites
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Although cyanobacteria are the dominant primary producers in modern stromatolites and other microbialites, the oldest stromatolites pre-date geochemical evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis and cyanobacteria in the rock record. As a step towards the development of laboratory models of stromatolite growth, we tested the potential of a metabolically ancient anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium to build stromatolites. This organism, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, stimulates the precipitation of calcite in solutions already highly saturated with respect to calcium carbonate, and greatly facilitates the incorporation of carbonate grains into proto-lamina (i.e. crusts). The appreciable stimulation of the growth of proto-lamina by a nonfilamentous anoxygenic microbe suggests that similar microbes may have played a greater role in the formation of Archean stromatolites than previously assumed.
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The construction of stromatolite-like structures by the anoxygenic phototroph Rhodopseudomonas palustris challenges the notion that stromatolites uniquely mark cyanobacterial presence in the geologic record and that microfossil metabolism can be inferred from morphology alone.
“However, the construction of stromatolite-like structures by the anoxygenic phototroph Rhodopseudomonas palustris (Bosak et al., 2007) challenges the notion that stromatolites uniquely mark cyanobacterial presence in the geologic record and that microfossil metabolism can be inferred from morphology alone.”
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- Authors
- BOSAK, T., GREENE, S. E., & NEWMAN, D. K.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- NEWMAN, D. K.
- Venue
- Geobiology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-04-06
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 119-126
- ISSN
- 1472-4669 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-4677
- PMC
- PMC2947360
- OpenAlex
- W2137859535
- Cited by
- 93
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 2.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Geobiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Agouron Institute
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Keywords
- stromatolites, anoxygenic photosynthesis, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, calcite precipitation, microbial carbonate precipitation, cyanobacteria, microbialite formation
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