The Association of Iron and Manganese with Bacteria on Marine Macroparticulate Material
- 22 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 224 (4655) , 1340-1342
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.224.4655.1340
Abstract
Evidence of in situ metal (iron and manganese) deposition onto bacteria associated with rapidly sinking particles in the open ocean is reported. Below 100 meters, bacteria are found with extracellular capsules containing metal precipitates; the frequency of these capsules increases with depth. The capsular metal deposits appear to contribute a major portion of the weakly bound fraction of the particulate iron flux.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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