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Molecular evolution in bacteria: Surfaces, cathodes and anodes

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Molecular evolution is examined in bacteria with an emphasis on mineral surfaces, membranes, cathodes and anodes. In early molecular evolution, cathode-anode system may have been naturally occurring on a nm to µm scale. Secondly, the cathode-anode system could have been separated by a primitive, permeable lipid or microsphere on a mineral surface, that was a precursor of a more advanced membrane with a charge differential on either side of the membrane. These aspects will be considered from a theoretical evolutionary perspective.

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Trevors, J. Molecular evolution in bacteria: Surfaces, cathodes and anodes. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 71, 363–368 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000271219036

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