Cyanobacteria-containing biofilms from a Mayan monument in Palenque, Mexico
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...Authors are grateful to all reviewers for their valuable comments leading to improvement of the manuscript....
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...Indeed, deterioration due to microbial biofilm leads to chemical, physical and aesthetic damage, depending on the microorganisms involved, the environmental conditions and the physico-chemical properties of construction materials (Gaylarde and Morton 1999; Ramirez et al. 2010; Sanmartı̀n et al. 2010; Rossi et al. 2012)....
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...…due to microbial biofilm leads to chemical, physical and aesthetic damage, depending on the microorganisms involved, the environmental conditions and the physico-chemical properties of construction materials (Gaylarde and Morton 1999; Ramirez et al. 2010; Sanmartı̀n et al. 2010; Rossi et al. 2012)....
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...Cyanobacteria damage stone due to the production of inorganic and organic metabolic products, in particular acids, some of which have chelating abilities (Ramirez et al. 2010)....
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...1991; Kumar and Kumar 1999), or favor the acceleration of weathering processes (Warscheid and Braams 2000) as observed in Sites II and III of El Palacio....
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...artificial substrata can become colonized by communities of microorganisms enclosed in exopolysaccharide matrices called biofilms (Warscheid and Braams 2000; Di Pippo et al. 2009)....
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...Under suitable conditions, both natural and artificial substrata can become colonized by communities of microorganisms enclosed in exopolysaccharide matrices called biofilms (Warscheid and Braams 2000; Di Pippo et al. 2009)....
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...…can cause discoloration of stone surfaces (Hernández-Mariné et al. 2003) and mechanical and biochemical deterioration (Ortega-Calvo et al. 1991; Kumar and Kumar 1999), or favor the acceleration of weathering processes (Warscheid and Braams 2000) as observed in Sites II and III of El Palacio....
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...Survival strategies related to desiccation are well known (Potts 1999; Wynn-Williams 2000), and include the use of water retained within the substrata and the formation of protective, droughtresistant compounds (Gorbushina and Krumbein 2000)....
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...During the dry season, in which conditions were unfavorable, phototrophic microorganisms were hidden under the remains from the previous wet season and were protected by their respective resilience strategies (Potts 1999)....
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...These results are comparable with those of extreme habitats ranging from Antarctic communities (Büdel et al. 2008) to deserts (Garcia-Pichel and Belnap 1996; Wynn-Williams 2000)....
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