This chapter describes how our present knowledge of sulfur metabolism of phototrophic sulfur bacteria accumulated through several major steps of experimental progress.
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Trüper, H.G. (2008). Sulfur and Light? History and “Thiology” of the Phototrophic Sulfur Bacteria. In: Dahl, C., Friedrich, C.G. (eds) Microbial Sulfur Metabolism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72682-1_8
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