Extracellular electron transfer through microbial reduction of solid-phase humic substances

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 417-421

  Roden, Eric E ^a   Kappler, Andreas ^b   Bauer, Iris ^b   Jiang, Jie ^b   Paul, Andrea ^c   Stoesser, Reinhard ^d   Konishi, Hiromi ^a   Xu, Huifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ELECTRON; HUMIC ACID; IRON OXIDE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WETLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77954856853     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo870     Document Type: Article

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