Nature Communications (Jul 2018)
Discovery of a silicate rock-boring organism and macrobioerosion in fresh water
- Ivan N. Bolotov,
- Olga V. Aksenova,
- Torkild Bakken,
- Christopher J. Glasby,
- Mikhail Yu. Gofarov,
- Alexander V. Kondakov,
- Ekaterina S. Konopleva,
- Manuel Lopes-Lima,
- Artyom A. Lyubas,
- Yu Wang,
- Andrey Yu. Bychkov,
- Agniya M. Sokolova,
- Kitti Tanmuangpak,
- Sakboworn Tumpeesuwan,
- Ilya V. Vikhrev,
- J. Bruce H. Shyu,
- Than Win,
- Oleg S. Pokrovsky
Affiliations
- Ivan N. Bolotov
- Northern Arctic Federal University
- Olga V. Aksenova
- Northern Arctic Federal University
- Torkild Bakken
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU University Museum
- Christopher J. Glasby
- Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
- Mikhail Yu. Gofarov
- Northern Arctic Federal University
- Alexander V. Kondakov
- Northern Arctic Federal University
- Ekaterina S. Konopleva
- Northern Arctic Federal University
- Manuel Lopes-Lima
- CIIMAR—Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto
- Artyom A. Lyubas
- Northern Arctic Federal University
- Yu Wang
- Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University
- Andrey Yu. Bychkov
- Faculty of Geology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Agniya M. Sokolova
- A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Kitti Tanmuangpak
- Department of Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Loei Rajabhat University
- Sakboworn Tumpeesuwan
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University
- Ilya V. Vikhrev
- Northern Arctic Federal University
- J. Bruce H. Shyu
- Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University
- Than Win
- Department of Zoology, Hpa-An University
- Oleg S. Pokrovsky
- Geosciences and Environment Toulouse, UMR 5563 CNRS
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05133-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Macrobioerosion, the boring of rock and other hard substrates by living organisms, is used as a marker of marine paleo-environments. Here, Bolotov et al. describe a rock-boring mussel and its associated community from freshwater in Myanmar, demonstrating that macrobioerosion is a wider phenomenon.
