ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2019
The Biogeochemical Sulfur Cycle of Marine Sediments.
Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 159 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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159 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Novel taxa of Acidobacteriota implicated in seafloor sulfur cycling.The ISME journal · 2021Pooled it
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- The genetic repertoire underlying electrogenic sulphur oxidation in cable bacteria.BMC genomics · 2026Article
- Sulfur Oxidation by New and Non-Canonical Bacteria in a Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetland Treating Domestic Wastewater.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Sulfur disproportionation occurs globally across anoxic habitats and has multiple mechanisms of independent evolutionary origin.The ISME journal · 2026Review
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- Contrasting microbial iron metabolism in sediments from oxic and hypoxic estuaries.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Sedimentary conditions drive modern pyrite burial flux to exceed oxidation.Nature geoscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
Microbial dissimilatory sulfate reduction to sulfide is a predominant terminal pathway of organic matter mineralization in the anoxic seabed. Chemical or microbial oxidation of the produced sulfide establishes a complex network of pathways in the sulfur cycle, leading to intermediate sulfur species and partly back to sulfate. The intermediates include elemental sulfur, polysulfides, thiosulfate, and sulfite, which are all substrates for further microbial oxidation, reduction or disproportionation. New microbiological discoveries, such as long-distance electron transfer through sulfide oxidizing cable bacteria, add to the complexity. Isotope exchange reactions play an important role for the stable isotope geochemistry and for the experimental study of sulfur transformations using radiotracers. Microbially catalyzed processes are partly reversible whereby the back-reaction affects our interpretation of radiotracer experiments and provides a mechanism for isotope fractionation. We here review the progress and current status in our understanding of the sulfur cycle in the seabed with respect to its microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, and isotope geochemistry.
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