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. 1989 Mar;55(3):291-6.
doi: 10.1007/BF00393857.

Rhodospirillum centenum, sp. nov., a thermotolerant cyst-forming anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium

J Favinger  1 , R Stadtwald, H Gest
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Rhodospirillum centenum, sp. nov., a thermotolerant cyst-forming anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium

J Favinger et al. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 1989 Mar.

Abstract

A novel non-sulfur purple photosynthetic bacterium, designated Rhodospirillum centenum, was isolated from an enrichment culture designed to favor growth of anoxygenic photosynthetic N2-fixing bacteria. R. centenum grows optimally at 40-42 degrees C and has the capacity to produce cytoplasmic 'R bodies', refractile structures not observed hitherto in photosynthetic prokaryotes. The bacterium is also unusual among photosynthetic bacteria in that it forms desiccation-resistant cysts when grown aerobically in darkness with butyrate as the sole carbon source.

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