Attachment and detachment of living microorganisms using an optically transparent electrode

作者开发了一种用于微生物附着和分离的电调制方法。将该方法应用于深海沉积物微生物分离时，收集到了19门23纲的细菌，没有腐植酸等不良高分子量污染物。在门水平上，95%和87%的电检索细菌的种型与直接提取沉积物DNA的基因克隆相同。

The author developed an electrical modulation method for attachment and detachment of microorganisms. When we applied this method to separate microorganisms from deep-sea sediment, bacteria belonging to 19 phyla and 23 classes were collected without undesirable high molecular-weight contaminants such humic acids. At the phylum level 95% and at the class level 87% of the phylotypes among electrically retrieved bacteria were common to the gene clones from the direct sediment DNA extraction.