Marine sulfate-reducing bacteria cause serious corrosion of iron under electroconductive biogenic mineral crust

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1772-1787

  Enning, Dennis ^a   Venzlaff, Hendrik ^b   Garrelfs, Julia ^a   Dinh, Hang T ^a   Meyer, Volker ^a   Mayrhofer, Karl ^b   Hassel, Achim W ^c   Stratmann, Martin ^b   Widdel, F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CORROSION; DESULFOVIBRIO; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

CORROSION; DESULFOVIBRIO; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; SULFATES; SULFIDES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84863216374     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02778.x     Document Type: Article

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