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Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens, a thermophilic anaerobic
dissimilatory
Fe(III)-reducing bacterium from a continental hot spring. Growth was
on basal
medium with amorphous Fe(III) oxide as an electron acceptor. The cells
are
covered by a layer of very electron-dense particulate material. Ultrathin
section.
Bar: 0.2 µm. (From Slobodkin, A., Reysenbach, A.-L., Strutz,
N., Dreier, M., Wiegel, J., 1997, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47, 541-547).
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