Lithosyntrophy: Obligate syntrophy in a phosphite-oxidizing, methanogenic culture
Heidi S. Aronson, Matt E. Weaver, Ruiwen Hu…·John D. Coates
This paper describes a novel syntrophic interaction called lithosyntrophy, where phosphite oxidation drives hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis in an obligate partnership between a bacterium and a methanogen.