Halophilic microorganisms are responsible for the rosy discolouration of saline environments in three historical buildings with mural paintings.

A number of mural paintings and building materials from monuments located in central and south Europe are characterized by the presence of an intriguing rosy discolouration phenomenon. Although some similarities were observed among the bacterial and archaeal microbiota detected in these monuments, t...

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Main Authors: Jörg D Ettenauer, Valme Jurado, Guadalupe Piñar, Ana Z Miller, Markus Santner, Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez, Katja Sterflinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25084531/pdf/?tool=EBI