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Bacterial power cords

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Geochemical reactions in upper layers of marine sediments are coupled to those in deeper zones. It turns out that centimetre-long bacterial filaments acting as electrical cables are the metabolic link between the layers. See Article p.218

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Figure 1: Electrifying microbial filaments.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 24 October 2012.

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