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Characterization and Identification of the Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria

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The Prokaryotes

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The anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (Anoxyphoto-bacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978) perform photosynthesis with a bacteriochlorophyll (bchl) under anaerobic conditions, using reduced sulfur compounds, molecular hydrogen, or simple organic carbon compounds as electron donors. These bacteria do not use water as a photosynthetic electron donor and do not produce molecular oxygen during photosynthesis. The ability to fix molecular nitrogen occurs in nearly all species tested so far (Siefert, 1976).

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  1. Department of Bacteriology, University of California, 95616, Davis, California, USA

    Mortimer P. Starr

  2. Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Bayreuth, 8580, Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany

    Heinz Stolp

  3. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 5300, Bonn 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Trüper

  4. Bacteriology Division, Centers for Disease Control, 30333, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Albert Balows

  5. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Göttingen, 3400, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Schlegel

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Trüper, H.G., Pfennig, N. (1981). Characterization and Identification of the Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria. In: Starr, M.P., Stolp, H., Trüper, H.G., Balows, A., Schlegel, H.G. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13187-9_18

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