Electric coupling between distant nitrate reduction and sulfide oxidation in marine sediment

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1682-1690

  Marzocchi, Ugo ^a   Trojan, Daniela ^a   Larsen, Steffen ^a   Meyer, Rikke Louise ^a   Revsbech, Niels Peter ^a   Schramm, Andreas ^a   Nielsen, Lars Peter ^a   Risgaard Petersen, Nils ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

cable bacteria; cathodic reduction; electric current; nitrate; sediment

Indexed keywords

NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRITE; OXYGEN; SEA WATER; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

CHEMISTRY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTRON; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT;

DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTRONS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITRATES; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; SULFIDES; SULFUR;

EID: 84905036269     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.19     Document Type: Article

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