Link between capacity for current production and syntrophic growth in Geobacter species

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Rotaru, Amelia Elena ^a,b   Woodard, Trevor L ^a   Nevin, Kelly P ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Direct interspecies electron transfer; Electrogen; Geobacter; Methanosarcina; Syntrophy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; FERRIC OXIDE; FORMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOENERGY; COCULTURE; CURRENT DENSITY; DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER BREMENSIS; GEOBACTER HYDROGENOPHILUS; GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; GEOBACTER URANIIREDUCENS; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; METHANOSPIRILLUM HUNGATEI; NONHUMAN; REDUCTION;

GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER BEMIDJIENSIS; GEOBACTER BREMENSIS; GEOBACTER HUMIREDUCENS; GEOBACTER HYDROGENOPHILUS; GEOBACTER METALLIREDUCENS; GEOBACTER SP.; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; METHANOSARCINA; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; METHANOSPIRILLUM HUNGATEI;

EID: 84938880111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00744     Document Type: Article

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