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Research article
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16 Sep 2015
Research article |
| 16 Sep 2015
Iron encrustations on filamentous algae colonized by Gallionella-related bacteria in a metal-polluted freshwater stream
J. F. Mori
Institute of Ecology, Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, 07743 Jena, Germany
T. R. Neu
Department of River Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Brueckstrasse 3A, 39114 Magdeburg, Germany
S. Lu
Institute of Ecology, Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, 07743 Jena, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
M. Händel
Institute of Geosciences, Hydrogeology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Burgweg 11, 07749 Jena, Germany
K. U. Totsche
Institute of Geosciences, Hydrogeology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Burgweg 11, 07749 Jena, Germany
K. Küsel
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Ecology, Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, 07743 Jena, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Phototrophic microalgae-driven comprehensive remediation of arsenic and cadmium: A novel iron mineralization pathway enabling arsenic immobilization D. Chen et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146096
- Iron-organic matter complexes accelerate microbial iron cycling in an iron-rich fen S. Kügler et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.258
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- Natural attenuation of metals by algal mat from acid mine drainage at Malanjkhand copper mine S. Equeenuddin et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-07012-7
- The interplay between microalgae and toxic metal(loid)s: mechanisms and implications in AMD phycoremediation coupled with Fe/Mn mineralization D. Chen et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131498
- Microbial diversity and iron oxidation at Okuoku‐hachikurou Onsen, a Japanese hot spring analog of Precambrian iron formations L. Ward et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12266
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We studied filamentous macroscopic algae growing in metal-rich stream water that leaked from a former uranium-mining district. These algae were encrusted with Fe-deposits that were associated with microbes, mainly Gallionella-related Fe-oxidizing bacteria, and extracellular polymeric substances. Algae with a lower number of chloroplasts often exhibited discontinuous series of precipitates, likely due to the intercalary growth of algae which allowed them to avoid detrimental encrustation.
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