A type of anaerobic bacteria responsible for more than 50 percent of nitrogen loss from marine environments has been shown to use solid-state matter present outside their cells for respiration ...

Direct interspecies electron transfer has been shown in methane-producing communities, but it is unknown how widespread this mechanism is. Here, Haet al. show that anoxygenic photosynthesis can be ...

Electron donors rather than electron acceptors (O 2) are more likely to be limiting respiration within the sediment, however, as a consequence of the rapid switches between oxia and anoxia ...

Therefore, the final stage of respiration in such organisms involves the release of electrons stored in EES to the iron mineral. Anaerobic respiration: Iron oxide accumulations around plant roots in a ...