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The Secondary Electron Donor of Photosynthetic Bacteria the Cytochromes

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  1. W Nitschke and SM Dracheva (1995) Reaction center associated cytochromes. In: RE Blankenship, MT Madigan and CE Bauer (eds) Anoxygenic Photosynthesis, pp 776–805. Kluwer

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(2003). The Secondary Electron Donor of Photosynthetic Bacteria the Cytochromes. In: Photosynthesis. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48136-7_10

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