“…MIC has become one of the main threats in the field of oil and gas industry, water treatment industry, and marine engineering, which brings huge economic losses and potential safety hazards (Li et al., 2017). For a long time, numerous research works have been focused on sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB), iron oxidizing bacteria (IOB), sulfur oxidizing bacteria (SOB), and other bacteria (Enning and Garrelfs, 2014; Huber et al., 2016; Liang et al., 2016; Liu et al., 2016; Xu et al., 2016, 2018; Jia et al., 2017; Karn et al., 2017; Dou et al., 2018; Liu and Cheng, 2018). For the ubiquitous microorganisms in the natural environment, such as SRB, their MIC mechanisms have been studied in-depth, and comprehensive corrosion mechanisms have been well established (Venzlaff et al., 2013; Rajala et al., 2015; Li et al., 2018; Jia et al., 2019).…”