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Editorial
. 2021 Oct 8;9(10):2119.
doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9102119.

Editorial for the Special Issue: Advances in the Biology of Phototrophic Bacteria

Johannes F Imhoff  1
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Editorial

Editorial for the Special Issue: Advances in the Biology of Phototrophic Bacteria

Johannes F Imhoff. Microorganisms. .

Abstract

Phototrophic bacteria represent a very ancient phylogenetic and highly diverse metabolic type of bacteria that diverged early into several major phylogenetic lineages with quite different properties [...].

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The author declares no conflict of interest.

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