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This work was partially supported by the United States Office of Naval Research (contract nos. N00014-99-1-0701 and N00014-06-1-0217). Beyenal was supported by Washington State University (fund no. 9904).

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Lewandowski, Z., Beyenal, H. (2008). Mechanisms of Microbially Influenced Corrosion. In: Springer Series on Biofilms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/7142_2008_8

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