The function of the carotenoid pigments
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Mathews, Micheline M. ;Sistrom, W. R.
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Article
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1960
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Springer-Verlag
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It is known that the carotenoid pigments of photosynthetic bacteria protect tile organisms from lethal photooxidations caused by their own bacterioehlorophyll (SIsTRo~, GRISS~THS and STA~I~ 1956, CO~E~-BAZI~E and STAmg~ 1958, FULLER and A~DE~SO~ 1958). The carotenoid pigments of a non-photosynthetic