Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4 (ca. 71–57 ka; within the Middle Weichselian Substage) is considered a significant Pleistocene glaciation, but it remains poorly constrained in comparison to that of the Late Weichselian Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ca. 29–19 ka, during MIS 2), or even the Late Saalian MIS 6 (ca. 190–130 ka). Most MIS 4 glacial landforms in Europe were erased by the more extensive LGM ice advance, pre...
The genus Desulfoluna comprises two anaerobic sulfate-reducing strains, D. spongiiphila AA1T and D. butyratoxydans MSL71T, of which only the former was shown to perform organohalide respiration (OHR). Here we isolated a third strain, designated D. spongiiphila strain DBB, from marine intertidal sediment using 1,4-dibromobenzene and sulfate as the electron acceptors and lactate as the electron donor. Each strain...