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in a denitrifying bed reactor. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 16:177–184
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biochemical processes in marine sediment. Nature 463:1071–1074
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nitrogen cycle. FEMS Microbiol Lett 362:fnv114
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bacterium from the Black Sea. Limnol Oceanogr 37:150–155
Pfeffer C, Larsen S, Song J et al (2012) Filamentous bacteria transport electrons over centimeter
distances. Nature 491:218–221
Pfennig N, Biebl H (1976) Desulfuromonas acetoxidans gen. nov. and sp. nov., a new anaerobic,
sulfur-reducing, acetate-oxidizing bacterium. Arch Microbiol 110:3–12
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display obligate mixotrophy and wide ecotypic variation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
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enzymatic reactions to the environment. J Mol Microbiol Technol 26:5–28
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anaerobic methane oxidation to denitrification. Nature 440:918–921
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the distribution of bacteriochlorophylls in the Black Sea. Nature 342:69–72
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types of sulfate reducing bacteria. Nature 372:455–458
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Schott J, Griffin B, Schink B (2010) Anaerobic phototrophic nitrite oxidation by Thiocapsa
sp. strain KS1 and Rhodopseudomonas sp. strain LQ17. Microbiology 156:2428–2437
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in Namibian shelf sediments. Science 284:493–495
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form a dense bacterial membrane. Nature 419:708–712
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sulfate-reducing bacterium, strain Hxd3. Appl Environ Microbiol 69:3892–3900
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chemolithoautotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a bioreactor belonging to the
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phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 64:2738–2752
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58:99–117
182
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