Inducing the attachment of cable bacteria on oxidizing electrodes

Li, Cheng; Reimers, Clare E.; Alleau, Yvan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-597-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-597-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-597-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

Research article

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06 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 06 Feb 2020

Inducing the attachment of cable bacteria on oxidizing electrodes

Cheng Li, Clare E. Reimers, and Yvan Alleau

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RC1: 'Can cable bacteria exchange electrons with electrodes?', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Sep 2019
- AC1: 'reply to comment', Cheng Li, 24 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'reply to comment', Cheng Li, 19 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Review of Li et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Sep 2019
- AC3: 'reply to comment', Cheng Li, 19 Oct 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (22 Oct 2019) by Jack Middelburg

AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (21 Nov 2019) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Nov 2019) by Jack Middelburg

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (08 Dec 2019)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (10 Dec 2019) by Jack Middelburg

AR by Cheng Li on behalf of the Authors (17 Dec 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (14 Jan 2020) by Jack Middelburg

AR by Cheng Li on behalf of the Authors (14 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

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Novel filamentous cable bacteria that grow in the top layer of intertidal mudflat sediment were attracted to electrodes poised at a positive electrical potential. Several diverse morphologies of Desulfobulbaceae filaments, cells, and colonies were observed on the electrode surface. These observations provide information to suggest conditions that will induce cable bacteria to perform electron donation to an electrode, informing future experiments that culture cable bacteria outside of sediment.