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Thirty-five years ago, Helge Larsen (1952) described the first isolation of a thiosutfate-utilizing Chlorobium which he named Chlorobium thiosulfatophilum. It differed from Chlorobium limicola (Nadson, 1906) just by this one property.
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Trüper, H.G., Lorenz, C., Schedet, M., Steinmetz, M. (1988). Metabolism of Thiosulfate in Chlorobium . In: Olson, J.M., Ormerod, J.G., Amesz, J., Stackebrandt, E., Trüper, H.G. (eds) Green Photosynthetic Bacteria. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1021-1_24
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