The phototrophic way of life

The Prokaryotes: Prokaryotic Communities and Ecophysiology

Volumn 9783642301230, Issue , 2013, Pages 203-257

  Overmann, Jörg ^a   Garcia Pichel, Ferran ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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