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    Cultivable microbial diversity in speleothems using MALDI-TOF spectrometry and DNA sequencing from Krem Soitan, Krem Lawbah, Krem Mawpun, Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India

    The microbial diversity in the Indian caves is inadequately characterized. This study reports on the culturable microbial communities in caves from the Indian sub-continent. This study aims to expand the curre...

    Devender Mudgil, Dhiraj Paul, Sushmitha Baskar in Archives of Microbiology (2022)

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    Factors Affecting Biomineralization

    In this chapter we provide an understanding of biominerals and biomineralization processes. The chapter starts with introduction to caves and biominerals. Then precipitation with reference to iron, carbonates,...

    S. R. Joshi, Sushmitha Baskar in Mineral Formation by Microorganisms (2022)

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    Cave Geomicrobiology in India: Status and Prospects

    The subsurface of the Earth is one of the major habitats and contains a significant proportion of microbial life (Whitman et al., 1998; Ghiorse, 2008; Roussel et al., 2008). However, our overall knowledge abou...

    Sushmitha Baskar, Ramanathan Baskar in STROMATOLITES: Interaction of Microbes wit… (2011)