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Morphologically Conspicuous Sulfur-Oxidizing Eubacteria

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The Prokaryotes

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This chapter deals with the genera Achromatium, Macromonas, Thiobacterium, Thiospira, and Thiovulum (see Fig. 1). They all belong to chemotrophic microbial populations generally encountered in natural habitats that are characterized by the simultaneous presence of H2S and O2, i.e., at the border between aerobic and anaerobic zones in surface waters and in the outflows of H2S-bearing springs. It will be useful to introduce this discussion with some general remarks on the special nature of this ecological niche to help explain the embarassing paucity of knowledge we possess about its inhabitants.

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  1. Emory University, 105 Bay Colt Road, 30201, Alpharetta, GA, USA

    Albert Balows

  2. Institute for Microbiology, University of Bonn, D-5300, Bonn 1, Germany

    Hans G. Trüper

  3. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Martin Dworkin

  4. TNO Institute of Environmental Sciences, 2600 AE, Delft, The Netherlands

    Wim Harder

  5. Department of Microbiology, Technical University, D-8000, Munich 2, Germany

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer

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La Rivière, J.W.M., Schmidt, K. (1992). Morphologically Conspicuous Sulfur-Oxidizing Eubacteria. In: Balows, A., Trüper, H.G., Dworkin, M., Harder, W., Schleifer, KH. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2191-1_56

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