DOIAbstract
Microorganisms spend their lives searching for chemical reactants that yield metabolically usable energy, one reactant providing electrons and the other accepting them in a redox reaction. In PNAS, Kjeldsen et al. (1) provide a comprehensive genomic and physiological analysis of bacteria that have evolved an ingenious solution to the persistent problem that suitable reactants often do not occur together: They electrify their sedimentary habitat as living wires and connect redox couples over centimeters, vast distances in the microbial world
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