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Rhodobacter sphaeroides is a photosynthetic member of the α-3 subgroup of Gram-negative bacteria (Woese, 1987). It is distinguished by a number of important characteristics which include at least six modes of growth. These accompany the ability of the organism to display a diverse range of metabolic activities, as well as other notable characteristics with respect to genome organization, evolution, and other processes (Table 43-1). This metabolic diversity may have evolved from a need to synthesize de novo a different range of compounds under each set of growth conditions.
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Mackenzie, C., Chidambaram, M., Choudhary, M., Nereng, K.S., Kaplan, S., Weinstock, G.M. (1998). Sequence Skimming of Chromosome II of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 T. In: de Bruijn, F.J., Lupski, J.R., Weinstock, G.M. (eds) Bacterial Genomes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6369-3_43
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