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abc-2761	Zammit, Gabrielle; Schembri, Sarah; Fenech, Mark	Phototrophic biofilms and microbial mats from the marine littoral of the central Mediterranean	2021	5	.pdf	application/pdf	3240	164	48	80 (1), 112–116, 2021 CODEN: ABCRA 25 DOI: 10.37427/botcro-2020-031 ISSN 0365-0588 eISSN 1847-8476 Short communication Phototrophic biofilms and microbial mats from the marine littoral of the central Mediterranean Gabrielle Zammit1,2*, Sarah Schembri1,2, Mark Fenech1,2 1 Laboratory of Applied Phycology, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking, University of Malta, Msida, Malta 2 Microbiology Lab, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Malta Abstract – Phototrophic biofilm and microbial mat communities grow along the rocky coastline of the Maltese is- lands. In submerged areas, such as undisturbed rock pools, these progressively formed green or brown compact biofilms, some of which thickened over the spring to form microbial mats via the production of more extensive EPS layers.	cache/abc-2761.pdf	txt/abc-2761.txt