Photograph of biofilms found near an underwater fresh water <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(hydrology)" class="extiw" title="en:Spring (hydrology)">springs</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea" class="extiw" title="en:Dead Sea">Dead Sea</a>, approximately 1.8 km west of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitzpe_Shalem" class="extiw" title="en:Mitzpe Shalem">Mitzpe Shalem</a>, in 2010 by Ionescu, <i>et al</i>, and published in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLOS_ONE" class="extiw" title="en:PLOS ONE">PLoS ONE</a></i> on 5 June 2012.
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</p><p><b>Different types of biofilms found near the underwater springs.</b>
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Small patches of thin white biofilms covered sediments adjacent to the water source in springs 1–5.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:TimofKingsland&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:TimofKingsland (page does not exist)">TimofKingsland</a> (this modified version); Danny Ionescu, Christian Siebert, Lubos Polerecky, Yaniv Y. Munwes, Christian Lott, Stefan Häusler, Mina Bižić-Ionescu, Christian Quast, Jörg Peplies, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Alban Ramette, Tino Rödiger, Thorsten Dittmar, Aharon Oren, Stefan Geyer, Hans-Joachim Stärk, Martin Sauter, Tobias Licha, Jonathan B. Laronne, and Dirk de Beer (original image)
Derived from a series of images published in: Ionescu D, Siebert C, Polerecky L, Munwes YY, Lott C, <i>et al</i>. (2012) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038319">Microbial and Chemical Characterization of Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea</a>. <i>PLoS ONE</i> 7(6): e38319. doi:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038319">10.1371/journal.pone.0038319</a>