Table 3.
Investigation of the potentials of mineral formation by the bacterial strains isolated from the marine samples.
| Isolate ID | Strain Name | Mineral forming |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD1 | MD1- | MD2 | MD3 | ||
| RS1 | Exiguobacterium arantiacum | - | - | - | - |
| RS2 | Exiguobacterium arantiacum | - | - | - | - |
| RS11 | Exiguobacterium arantiacum | - | - | - | - |
| RS12 | Exiguobacterium arantiacum | - | - | - | - |
| RS3 | Vibrio alginolyticus | + | (++) | - | - |
| RS7 | Vibrio alginolyticus | - | NG | NG | NG |
| RS8 | Vibrio alginolyticus | - | - | NG | NG |
| RS10 | Vibrio alginolyticus | - | NG | NG | NG |
| RS5 | Psychrobacter sp. | + | + | + | + |
(NG) no growth; (-) growth with no precipitation; (+) growth with precipitation; (++) growth with significantly higher precipitation.