Metagenome of a corrosive community from freshwater sediments. Corrosive community from freshwater sediments

Steel infrastructure below ground enables transport and storage of clean water, chemicals, fuels, sewage, but also protection for telecommunication and electricity cables. Urban storm and rainfall management in many countries involves harvesting rainfall at a large scale, thus alleviating stormwater runoff in the cities. If the stormwater runoff is improperly detained, underground steel infrastructure could suffer tremendous damage. We examined Fe0-dependent microbial interactions between physiological groups enriched from anoxic freshwater sediments. Then, we investigated how each physiological group interacts with Fe0.