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CATALDI1 has shown that Beggiatoa, instead of living autotrophically on the oxidation of hydrogen sulphide, can grow heterotrophically on proteinacious substances. Faust and Wolfe2 observed stimulation by acetate.
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Cataldi, M. S., Revista Inst. Bact. (D.N.H.), 9, 393 (1940).
Faust, L., and Wolfe, R. S., J. Bact., 81, 99 (1961).
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PRINGSHEIM, E., WIESSNER, W. Minimum Requirements for Heterotrophic Growth, and Reserve Substance in Beggiatoa. Nature 197, 102 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197102a0
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