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A highly conductive fibre network enables centimetre-scale electron transport in multicellular cable bacteria

Cable bacteria’ form long multicellular filaments that can transfer electrical currents over centimetre-long distances. Here, Meysman et al. show that the electrical currents run along highly conductive fibres embedded in the cell envelope, and charge transfer is electronic rather than ionic.

Filip J. R. Meysman
Rob Cornelissen
Jean V. Manca
ResearchOpen Access11 Sept 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-8
Oxygen burrowed away

Multicellular animals probably evolved at the seafloor after a rise in oceanic oxygen levels. Biogeochemical model simulations suggest that as these animals started to rework the seafloor, they triggered a negative feedback that reduced global oxygen.

Filip J. R. Meysman
News & Views03 Aug 2014
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 7, P: 620-621
Efficient long-range conduction in cable bacteria through nickel protein wires

Filamentous cable bacteria conduct electrical currents over centimeter distances through fibers embedded in their cell envelope. Here, Boschker et al. show that the fibers consist of a conductive core containing nickel proteins that is surrounded by an insulating protein shell.

Henricus T. S. Boschker
Perran L. M. Cook
Filip J. R. Meysman
ResearchOpen Access28 Jun 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-12
Temperature excludes N₂-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria in the tropical oceans

Marc Staal
Filip J. R. Meysman
Lucas J. Stal
Research02 Oct 2003
Nature

Volume: 425, P: 504-507
Early Palaeozoic ocean anoxia and global warming driven by the evolution of shallow burrowing

The extent to which the onset of bioturbation affected global biogeochemistry during the Palaeozoic remains unclear. Here, the authors integrate bioturbation into the COPSE model, compare output with geochemical proxies, and suggest shallow burrowing contributed to a global low oxygen state during the early Cambrian.

Sebastiaan van de Velde
Benjamin J. W. Mills
Simon W. Poulton
ResearchOpen Access02 Jul 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-10
Intrinsic electrical properties of cable bacteria reveal an Arrhenius temperature dependence

Robin Bonné
Ji-Ling Hou
Jean V. Manca
ResearchOpen Access13 Nov 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-8
Biological rejuvenation of iron oxides in bioturbated marine sediments

Jacob P. Beam
Jarrod J. Scott
David Emerson
Research17 Jan 2018
The ISME Journal

Volume: 12, P: 1389-1394
Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

A substantial amount of atmospheric carbon taken up on land is transported laterally from upland terrestrial ecosystems to the ocean. A synthesis of the available literature suggests that human activities have significantly increased soil carbon inputs to inland waters, but have only slightly affected carbon delivery to the open ocean.

Pierre Regnier
Pierre Friedlingstein
Martin Thullner
Reviews09 Jun 2013
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 6, P: 597-607
Anthropogenic disturbance keeps the coastal seafloor biogeochemistry in a transient state

Sebastiaan van de Velde
Vera Van Lancker
Filip J. R. Meysman
ResearchOpen Access03 Apr 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-10
Reduced TCA cycle rates at high hydrostatic pressure hinder hydrocarbon degradation and obligate oil degraders in natural, deep-sea microbial communities

Alberto Scoma
Robert Heyer
Nico Boon
Research12 Dec 2018
The ISME Journal

Volume: 13, P: 1004-1018
Natural occurrence of microbial sulphur oxidation by long-range electron transport in the seafloor

Sairah Y Malkin
Alexandra MF Rao
Filip JR Meysman
ResearchOpen Access27 Mar 2014
The ISME Journal

Volume: 8, P: 1843-1854
Microbial carbon metabolism associated with electrogenic sulphur oxidation in coastal sediments

Diana Vasquez-Cardenas
Jack van de Vossenberg
Henricus TS Boschker
ResearchOpen Access13 Feb 2015
The ISME Journal

Volume: 9, P: 1966-1978

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