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Heavily Wired

Oct 21, 2015

Electron micrograph of the nanowires connecting archaea and sulphate reducing bacteria. The wires stretch out for several micrometres, longer than a single cell. The white bar represents the length of one micrometre. The arrows indicate the nanowires. (A=ANME-Archaeen, H=HotSeep-1 partner bacteria)
Source: Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
A recent study in the journal Nature uncovers how Microorganisms organize their power supply via nano-wires to oxidize the greenhouse gas methane. Dr. Gunter Wegener from MPI and MARUM and his team discovered these small power grids between dual-species microbial consortia.
 
Press release from the MPI Bremen