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ReviewMicroorganisms2019

Subsurface Microbial Hydrogen Cycling: Natural Occurrence and Implications for Industry.

Simon P Gregory, Megan J Barnett, Lorraine P Field, Antoni E Milodowski

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Review in Microorganisms, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Microbiome associated to an HEnvironmental microbiome · 2024
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  20. Experimental simulation of HFrontiers in microbiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Simon P GregoryBritish Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. simongr@bgs.ac.uk.
Megan J BarnettBritish Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. megan@bgs.ac.uk.
Lorraine P FieldBritish Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. lorfie@bgs.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-8747-9901
Antoni E MilodowskiBritish Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. aem@bgs.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-5141-5615

Funding

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 271498
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydrogen is a key energy source for subsurface microbial processes, particularly in subsurface environments with limited alternative electron donors, and environments that are not well connected to the surface. In addition to consumption of hydrogen, microbial processes such as fermentation and nitrogen fixation produce hydrogen. Hydrogen is also produced by a number of abiotic processes including radiolysis, serpentinization, graphitization, and cataclasis of silicate minerals. Both biotic and abiotically generated hydrogen may become available for consumption by microorganisms, but biotic production and consumption are usually tightly coupled. Understanding the microbiology of hydrogen cycling is relevant to subsurface engineered environments where hydrogen-cycling microorganisms are implicated in gas consumption and production and corrosion in a number of industries including carbon capture and storage, energy gas storage, and radioactive waste disposal. The same hydrogen-cycling microorganisms and processes are important in natural sites with elevated hydrogen and can provide insights into early life on Earth and life on other planets. This review draws together what is known about microbiology in natural environments with elevated hydrogen, and highlights where similar microbial populations could be of relevance to subsurface industry.

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corrosiongas storagehydrogenhydrogenotrophy

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PMID30769950
PMCPMC6407114

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