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SUBMITTER: Martinez-Ruiz F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5915594 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180424 1
Ba proxies have been broadly used to reconstruct past oceanic export production. However, the precise mechanisms underlying barite precipitation in undersaturated seawater are not known. The link between bacterial production and particulate Ba in the ocean suggests that bacteria may play a role. Here we show that under experimental conditions marine bacterial biofilms, particularly extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), are capable of bioaccumulating Ba, providing adequate conditions for bari ...[more]