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The Chemolithotrophic Prokaryotes

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Ihre Lebensprozesse spielen sich nach einem viel einfacheren Schema ab; durch einen rein anorganischen chemischen Prozess...werden alle ihre Lebensbewegungen im Gange erhalten.

[“Their life processes are played out in a very simple fashion; all their life activities are driven by a purely inorganic chemical process.”]

—Winogradsky, 1887

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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Box 196, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312, USA

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  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, D039, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

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  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, Israel

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Kelly, D.P., Wood, A.P. (2006). The Chemolithotrophic Prokaryotes. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30742-7_15

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