Plugging in or Going Wireless: Strategies for Interspecies Electron Transfer

Interspecies exchange of electrons enables a diversity of microbial communities to gain energy from reactions that no one microbe can catalyze. The first recognized strategies for interspecies electron transfer were those that relied on chemical intermediates that are recycled through oxidized and r...

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Main Authors: Pravin Malla Shrestha, Amelia-Elena eRotaru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00237/full