The moonmilk deposits within the alpine Hundsalm cave in Austria offered the opportunity to investigate anthropogenically uninfluenced microbiomes. Via cultivation experiments we were able to show tha
Hsp65 gene was used for the comparison of Actinobacteria communities among four French limestone caves (Mouflon, Reille, Rouffignac, and Lascaux) ranging from pristine to anthropized and within Lascau
Karst caves are a natural oligotrophic subsurface biosphere widely distributed in southern China. Despite the progress in bacterial and fungal diversity, the knowledge about interactions between bacte
In the Apse of Lascaux Cave (France), microorganisms present on and in arthropods were identified using the 16S rRNA genes specific for bacteria and the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) speci