interspecies hydrogen transfer

interspecies hydrogen transfer
The linkage of hydrogen production from organic matter by anaerobic heterotrophic microorganisms to the use of hydrogen by other anaerobes in the reduction of carbon dioxide to methane. This avoids possible hydrogen toxicity.

Microbiology. . 2009.

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