Two kinds of lithotrophs missing in nature

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. E. Broda

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 184 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0233-111X
• DOI: 10.1002/jobm.19770170611

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Two groups of lithotrophic bacteria, the existence of which may be expected on evolutionary and thermodynamical grounds, have not yet been detected: (A) photosynthetic, anaerobic, ammonia bacteria, analogous to coloured sulphur bacteria, and (B) chemosynthetic bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrogen with O~2~ or nitrate as oxidant.