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promising sustainable strategy to improve concrete durability. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol
100:2993–3007
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denitrification. MSc dissertation, Arizona State University, Tempe
59. Erşan YÇ, De Belie N, Boon N (2015) Microbially induced CaCO 3 precipitation through
denitrification: an optimization study in minimal nutrient environment. Biochem Eng J
101:108–118
60. Reeburgh WS (2007) Oceanic methane biogeochemistry. Chem Rev 107:486–513
61. Merz MUE (1992) The biology of carbonate precipitation by cyanobacteria. Facies 26:81–102
62. Baumgartner LK, Reid RP, Dupraz C, Decho AW, Buckley D, Spear JR, Przekop KM,
Visscher PT (2006) Sulfate reducing bacteria in microbial mats: changing paradigms, new
discoveries. Sediment Geol 185:131–145
63. Fujita Y, Ferris FG, Lawson RD, Colwell FS, Smith RW (2000) Calcium carbonate precipitation by ureolytic subsurface bacteria. Geomicrobiol J 17:305–318
64. Achal V, Mukherjee A (2015) A review of microbial precipitation for sustainable construction.
Constr Build Mater 93:1224–1235
65. Van Paassen LA, Daza CM, Staal M, Sorokin DY, van der Zon W, van Loosdrecht MCM
(2010) Potential soil reinforcement by biological denitrification. Ecol Eng 36:168–175
66. Dupraz C, Visscher PT, Baumgartner LK, Reid RP (2004) Microbe-mineral interactions: early
carbonate precipitation in a hypersaline lake (Eleuthera Island, Bahamas). Sedimentology
51:745–765
67. González-Muñoz MT, Rodriguez-Navarro C, Martínez-Ruiz F, Arias JM, Merroun ML,
Rodriguez-Gallego M (2010) Bacterial biomineralization: new insights from Myxococcusinduced mineral precipitation. Geol Soc Spec Publ 336:31–50
68. Braissant O, Decho AW, Dupraz C, Glunk C, Przekop KM, Visscher PT (2007) Exopolymeric
substances of sulfate-reducing bacteria: interactions with calcium at alkaline pH and implication for formation of carbonate minerals. Geobiology 5:401–411
69. Rivadeneyra MA, Delgado R, Del Moral A, Ferrer MR, Ramos-Cormenzana A (1994)
Precipitation of calcium carbonate by Vibrio spp. from an inland saltern. FEMS Microb
Ecol 13:197–204
70. Barabesi C, Galizzi A, Mastromei G, Rossi M, Tamburini E, Perito B (2007) Bacillus subtilis
gene cluster involved in calcium carbonate biomineralization. J Bacteriol 189:228–235
71. Hammes F, Verstraete W (2002) Key roles of pH and calcium metabolism in microbial
carbonate precipitation. Rev Environ Sci Biotechnol 1:3–7
72. Rivadeneyra MA, Delgado G, Ramos-Cormenzana A, Delgado R (1998) Biomineralization of
carbonates by Halomonas eurihalina in solid and liquid media with different salinities: crystal
formation sequence. Res Microbiol 149:277–287
73. Knorre H, Krumbein KE (2000) Bacterial calcification. In: Riding EE, Awramik SM (eds)
Microbial sediments. Springer, Berlin, pp 25–31
74. Rivadeneyra MA, Parraga J, Delgado R, Ramos-Cormenzana A, Delgado G (2004) Biomineralization of carbonates by Halobacillus trueperi in solid and liquid media with different
salinities. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 48:39–46
75. Boquet E, Boronat A, Ramos-Cormenzana A (1973) Production of calcite (calcium carbonate)
crystals by soil bacteria is a general phenomenon. Nature 246:527–529
76. Marvasi M, Visscher PT, Perito B, Mastromei G, Casillas-Martinez L (2010) Physiological
requirements for carbonate precipitation during biofilm development of Bacillus subtilis etfA
mutant. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 71:341–350
77. Castanier S, Le Metayer-Levrel G, Orial G, Loubiere JF, Perthuisot JP (1999) Bacterial
carbonatogenesis and applications to preservation and restoration of historic property. In:
332
G. Mamo and B. Mattiasson