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Ettwig KF, Zhu B, Speth D et al (2016) Archaea catalyze iron-dependent anaerobic oxidation of
methane. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 113:12792–12796
Fossing H, Gallardo VA, Jørgensen BB et al (1995) Concentration and transport of nitrate by the
mat-forming sulphur bacterium Thioploca. Nature 374:713–715
Francis CA, Beman JM, Kuypers MMM (2007) New processes and players in the nitrogen cycle:
the microbial ecology of anaerobic and archaeal ammonia oxidation. ISME J 1:19–27
Gómez-Consarnau L, González JM, Coll-Lladó M et al (2007) Light stimulates growth of
proteorhodopsin-containing marine Flavobacteria. Nature 445:210–213
Gómez-Consarnau L, Raven JA, Levine NM et al (2019) Microbial rhodopsins are major contributors to the solar energy captured in the sea. Sci Adv 5:eaaw8855
Gottschalk G (1985) Bacterial metabolism, 2nd edn. Springer, New York
Griffin BM, Schott J, Schink B (2007) Nitrite, an electron donor for anoxygenic photosynthesis.
Science 316:1870
Hallam SJ, Putnam N, Preston CM et al (2004) Reverse methanogenesis: testing the hypothesis with
environmental genomics. Science 305:1457–1462
Hanson RS, Hanson TE (1996) Methanotrophic bacteria. Microbiol Rev 60:439–471
Haroon MF, Hu S, Shi Y et al (2013) Anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to nitrate reduction
in a novel archaeal lineage. Nature 500:567–570
Hoeft McCann S, Boren A, Hernandez-Maldonado J et al (2017) Arsenite as an electron donor for
anoxygenic photosynthesis: description of three strains of Ectothiorhodospira from Mono Lake,
California and Big Soda Lake, Nevada. Life 7:1
Jørgensen BB, Gallardo VA (1999) Thioploca spp.: filamentous sulfur bacteria with nitrate
vacuoles. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 28:301–313
Joye S (2012) A piece of the methane puzzle. Nature 491:538–539
Kato N, Yurimoto H, Thauer RK (2006) The physiological role of the ribulose monophosphate
pathway in bacteria and archaea. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 70:10–21
Kjeldsen KU, Schreiber L, Thorup CA et al (2019) On the evolution and physiology of cable
bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 116:19116–19125
Kluyver AJ (1924) Eenheid en verscheidenheid in de stofwisseling der microben. Chemisch
Weekblad 21:266–277
Kluyver AJ, Donker HJL (1926) Die Einheit in der Biochemie. Chem Zelle Gewebe 13:134–190
Kniemeyer O, Heider J (2001) Ethylbenzene dehydrogenase, a novel hydrocarbon-oxidizing
molybdenum/iron-sulfur/heme enzyme. J Biol Chem 276:21381–21386
Konings WN, Kuenen JG (2003) In memoriam Prof. Dr Hans Veldkamp. FEMS Microbiol Ecol
44:1–2
Könneke M, Bernhard AE, de la Torre JR et al (2005) Isolation of an autotrophic ammoniaoxidizing marine archaeon. Nature 437:543–546
Lee MJ, Zinder SH (1988) Isolation and characterization of a thermophilic bacterium which
oxidizes acetate in syntrophic association with a methanogen and which grows acetogenically
on H 2 -CO 2 . Appl Environ Microbiol 54:124–129
Lewis GN, Randall M (1923) Thermodynamics and the free energy of chemical substances, 1st edn.
McGraw Hill, New York
McHatton SC, Barry JP, Jannasch HW et al (1996) High nitrate concentrations in vacuolated,
autotrophic marine Beggiatoa spp. Appl Environ Microbiol 62:954–958
Merckenstock RU, Boll M, Mouttaki H et al (2016) Anaerobic degradation of benzene and
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 26:92–118
Meysman FJR, Cornelissen R, Trashin S et al (2019) A highly conductive fibre network enables
centimetre-scale electron transport in multicellular cable bacteria. Nature Commun 10:4120
Michaelis W, Seifert R, Nauhaus K et al (2002) Microbial reefs in the Black Sea fueled by anaerobic
oxidation of methane. Science 297:1013–1015
10 The Grand Microbial Variety Show
181