Articles | Volume 17, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-597-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-597-2020
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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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.
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