Original Paper | 28-December-2016
. There were only 9 and 8 strains of fungi isolated from dolomite and limestone respectively, which all belonged to Ascomycota. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on diversity of endolithic culturable bacteria and fungi in carbonate rocks in Guizhou karst region. These microorganisms may play an important and unprecedented role in the carbonate rock weathering during the long history of geological evolution.
Yuan Tang,
Jian-Zhong Cheng,
Bin Lian
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 65 , ISSUE 4, 413–423