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SUBMITTER: Scilipoti S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7875522 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scilipoti Stefano S Koren Klaus K Risgaard-Petersen Nils N Schramm Andreas A Nielsen Lars Peter LP
Science advances 20210210 7
The electric wires of cable bacteria possibly support a unique respiration mode with a few oxygen-reducing cells flaring off electrons, while oxidation of the electron donor and the associated energy conservation and growth is allocated to other cells not exposed to oxygen. Cable bacteria are centimeter-long, multicellular, filamentous Desulfobulbaceae that transport electrons across oxic-anoxic interfaces in aquatic sediments. From observed distortions of the oxic-anoxic interface, we derived o ...[more]