Cable bacteria generate a firewall against euxinia in seasonally hypoxic basins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 43, 2015, Pages 13278-13283

  Seitaj, Dorina ^a   Schauer, Regina ^b   Sulu Gambari, Fatimah ^c   Hidalgo Martinez, Silvia ^a   Malkin, Sairah Y ^d,e   Burdorf, Laurine D W ^a   Slomp, Caroline P ^c   Meysman, Filip J R ^a,d  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cable bacteria; Coastal hypoxia; Microbial competition; Sediment biogeochemistry; Sulfur cycling

Indexed keywords

FERROUS SULFIDE; IRON; IRON OXIDE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; WATER; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; COASTAL WATERS; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFOBULBACEAE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EUXINIA; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYPOXIA; MARINE SPECIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; SUMMER; THIOTRICHACEAE; WINTER; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NETHERLANDS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SALINITY; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MICROELECTRODES; NETHERLANDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SALINITY; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SULFIDES; TEMPERATURE; THIOTRICHACEAE;

EID: 84945561103     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510152112     Document Type: Article

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