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    Sulfur-reducing bacteria are microorganisms able to reduce elemental sulfur (S0) to hydrogen sulfide (H2S). These microbes use inorganic sulfur compounds...
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    Sulfate-reducing microorganisms (SRM) or sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) are a group composed of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) and sulfate-reducing archaea...
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    divided into two groups – purple sulfur bacteria (Chromatiales, in part) and purple non-sulfur bacteria. Purple bacteria are anoxygenic phototrophs widely...
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  • cyanobacteria, purple sulfur bacteria do not use water as their reducing agent, and therefore do not produce oxygen. Instead, they can use sulfur in the form of...
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  • up sulfur bacteria in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sulfur bacteria may refer to: Green sulfur bacteria Purple sulfur bacteria Sulfate-reducing bacteria...
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    green sulfur bacteria are a phylum, Chlorobiota, of obligately anaerobic photoautotrophic bacteria that metabolize sulfur. Green sulfur bacteria are nonmotile...
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  • environments for these bacteria to survive in. Many bacterial strains that were found on deep-sea wood were sulfur-reducing bacteria, meaning they obtain...
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    also reduce nitrates will increase in relative abundance to sulfur-reducing bacteria. Within salt marshes, chemolithoautotrophic nitrifying bacteria are...
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  • carbon dioxide. Examples: Nitrifying bacteria, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, iron-oxidizing bacteria, Knallgas-bacteria photolithoautotrophs obtain energy...
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    native sulfur have been obtained through biological activity, but what is responsible for that (sulfur-oxidizing bacteria or sulfate-reducing bacteria) is...
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    participant in the sulfur cycle, the biogeochemical cycle of sulfur on Earth. In the absence of oxygen, sulfur-reducing and sulfate-reducing bacteria derive energy...
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    produces elemental sulfur (S8), oxidation state = 0. This reaction occurs in the photosynthetic green and purple sulfur bacteria and some chemolithotrophs...
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    sulfate-reducing organisms and in sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, as well. The role of sulfur dioxide in mammalian biology is not yet well understood. Sulfur dioxide...
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    autotrophic bacteria that can oxidize elemental sulfur to sulfate are also able to oxidize thiosulfate to sulfate as a source of reducing power for carbon...
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  • Sulfur is metabolized by all organisms, from bacteria and archaea to plants and animals. Sulfur can have an oxidation state from -2 to +6 and is reduced...
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    with sulfur reducing bacteria, the layer above will be green sulfur photosynthetic anaerobic bacteria, then the layer will be purple which is sulfur anaerobic...
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    as a byproduct, while a small minority (such as haloarchaea and sulfur-reducing bacteria) perform anoxygenic photosynthesis. Chemical and geological evidence...
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    co-occurrence with the sulfur reducing bacteria found at whale falls. Whale falls do however support both sulfur reducing bacteria and methane producing...
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  • Arsenate-reducing bacteria are bacteria which reduce arsenates. Arsenate-reducing bacteria are ubiquitous in arsenic-contaminated groundwater (aqueous...
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    produced by nitrifying bacteria, just as sulfur and sulfates are produced by the sulfur-reducing bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria. Insoluble iron waste...
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  • converted to glucose. This group of organisms includes sulfur oxidizers, nitrifying bacteria, iron oxidizers, and hydrogen oxidizers. The term "chemolithotrophy"...
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    methane-oxidizing bacteria such as Methylobacter or Methylomicrobium. Sulfur-reducing bacteria are common in anoxic layers of soda lakes. These reduce sulfate and...
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    Thermodesulfobacteriota are a phylum of thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria. They are a gram-negative bacteria. [1] A pathogenic intracellular thermodesulfobacteriote...
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  • Broker, a computer data grid management system Sulfate-reducing bacteria Sulfur-reducing bacteria Service Request Block, in IBM operating systems Solid...
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  • Iron–sulfur proteins are proteins characterized by the presence of iron–sulfur clusters containing sulfide-linked di-, tri-, and tetrairon centers in...
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  • Thumbnail for Nitratidesulfovibrio vulgaris
    vulgaris is often used as a model organism for sulfur-reducing bacteria and was the first of such bacteria to have its genome sequenced. It is ubiquitous...
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    from H 2S, which is oxidized to sulfur (hence the name "green sulfur bacteria"). Purple bacteria and green sulfur bacteria occupy relatively minor ecological...
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    the use of molecular oxygen. Sulfur-reducing bacteria can utilize elemental sulfur instead of oxygen, reducing sulfur to hydrogen sulfide.) Arsenic, which...
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    bacteria, Legionella etc. Other notable groups of gram-negative bacteria include the cyanobacteria, spirochaetes, green sulfur, and green non-sulfur bacteria...
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    even form lipid-enclosed structures called chlorosomes in green sulfur bacteria. Bacteria do not have a membrane-bound nucleus, and their genetic material...
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