Microbiology of the stalactites from Grotta dei Cervi, Porto Badisco, Italy

• Leonila Laiz ^[1] ; Ingrid Groth ^[2] ; Peter Schumann ^[3] ; Fulvio Zezza ^[4] ; Andreas Felske ^[1] ; Bernardo Hermosin ^[1] ; Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez ^[1]
  1. [1] Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
  2. [2] Hans-Knoell-Institute for Natural Products Research, Jena, Germany
  3. [3] DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
  4. [4] Istituto di Geologia Applicata e Geotecnica, Bari, Italy

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• Localización: International microbiology: official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology, ISSN 1139-6709, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 2000, págs. 25-30
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The active stalactites from Grotta dei Cervi, Porto Badisco, southeastern Italy, were sampled to investigate the microbial communities present in these speleothems. Sampling was carried out in a transect about 150 m long in the central gallery, where numerous Gram-positive bacteria were isolated. Actinomycetes of the genus Streptomyces were the most abundant, followed by members of the genus Bacillus. Further isolates were assigned to the genera Amycolatopsis, Arthrobacter, Agromyces, Micrococcus, Nocardiopsis and Rhodococcus of the order Actinomycetales. The ability of actinomycetes to colonize subterranean environments is discussed.