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Elena González-Toril
Researcher at Spanish National Research Council
Publications - 68
Citations - 2384
Elena González-Toril is an academic researcher from Spanish National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Iberian Pyrite Belt & Acid mine drainage. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 64 publications receiving 2076 citations. Previous affiliations of Elena González-Toril include Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Microbial Ecology of an Extreme Acidic Environment, the Tinto River
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the diversity of the Tinto River microbial community by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and 16S rRNA gene amplification.
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Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans, sp. nov.; facultatively anaerobic, psychrotolerant iron-, and sulfur-oxidizing acidophiles isolated from metal mine-impacted environments.
TL;DR: Phenotypic and genotypic analysis was carried out on four iron- and sulfur-oxidizing acidophilic bacteria isolated from different parts of the world, and it appears that the bacteria of the NO-37 group have a different biochemical mechanism for oxidizing ferrous iron than At.
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Extreme environments as Mars terrestrial analogs: The Rio Tinto case
Ricardo Amils,Ricardo Amils,Elena González-Toril,David Fernández-Remolar,Felipe Gómez,Angeles Aguilera,Nuria Rodríguez,Mustafá Malki,Antonio García-Moyano,Alberto G. Fairén,Vicenta de la Fuente,J. Sanz +11 more
TL;DR: The geomicrobiological characterization of the Rio Tinto (Iberian Pyritic Belt) has recently proven the importance of the iron cycle, not only in the generation of the extreme conditions of the habitat (low pH, high concentration of heavy metals), but also in the maintenance of a high level of microbial diversity.
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Analysis of environmental transcriptomes by DNA microarrays.
TL;DR: It is concluded that specific gene expression patterns can be useful indicators for the physiological conditions in a defined ecosystem.
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Prokaryotic community composition and ecology of floating macroscopic filaments from an extreme acidic environment, Río Tinto (SW, Spain).
TL;DR: The presence of these anaerobic microorganisms strongly suggests that the filaments could originate in the deeper parts of the river as a typical acid streamer attached to the rocks or the sediments and be pulled up towards the surface when they reach certain buoyancy.