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The last decade has been marked by significant developments in ferric iron reduction studies. In view of a variety of research (Jones et al. 1983, 1984; Lovley 1987; Lovley and Phillips 1986, 1987), ferric iron reduction appears to be an essential, and in many instances, a most preferential pathway of the terminal metabolism of organic matter in anaerobic environments.
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Potekhina, J. (1990). The Role of Fe(III) Reduction in Anaerobic Processes. In: Bélaich, JP., Bruschi, M., Garcia, JL. (eds) Microbiology and Biochemistry of Strict Anaerobes Involved in Interspecies Hydrogen Transfer. Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium Series, vol 54. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0613-9_55
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