chemoautotroph

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che·mo·au·to·troph

(kē′mō-ô′tə-trŏf′, -trōf′, kĕm′ō-)

che′mo·au′to·troph′ic adj.

che′mo·au·tot′ro·phy (-ô-tŏt′rə-fē) n.

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chemoautotroph

(ˌkiːməʊˈɔːtəˌtrəʊf)

an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy

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japonicum, being a facultative chemoautotroph, utilizes H2 gas as an electron donor in a respiratory chain terminated by oxygen to provide energy for cellular processes and C[O.sub.2] assimilation [53].

Determination of biological nitrogen fixation induced [N.sub.2]O emission from arable soil by using a closed chamber technique

Anaerobic oxidation of arsenite in Mono Lake water and by a facultative, arsenite-oxidizing chemoautotroph, strain MLHE-1.

Characterization of arsenic-tolerant bacterial cultures from the Lower Laguna Madre of south Texas

But Desulfovibrio is not a photoautotroph; it's a chemoautotroph. Chemoautotrophs also make their own food, but they don't use photosynthesis to do it.

The Possibility of Life on Mars

The canonical network of autotrophic intermediary metabolism: minimal mctabolome of a reductive chemoautotroph. Biol.

Ligand field theory and the origin of life as an emergent feature of the periodic table of elements

Figures 3 and 4 trace the synthetic pathways from the core anabolic chart to the coenzymes of a representative chemoautotroph (Srinivasan and Morowitz, 2009).

Analysis of the intermediary metabolism of a reductive chemoautotroph

Also presented is a compilation of biochemical reactions and a list of metabolites enumerating a representative minimal metabolome of a free-living reductive chemoautotroph.

The canonical network of autotrophic intermediary metabolism: minimal metabolome of a reductive chemoautotroph

They possess both chemoautotrophs and photoautotrophs properties, allowing themselves to either utilizing light source or through oxidizing nutrient rich compound from their environment for their energy needs.

A rare case of Ralstonia mannitolilytica infection in an end stage renal patient on maintenance dialysis during municipal water contamination

Deep-sea vent chemoautotrophs: diversity, biochemistry and ecological significance.

Long-term cultivation of the deep-sea clam Calyptogena okutanii: Changes in the abundance of chemoautotrophic symbiont, elemental sulfur, and mucus

The carboxysome, a polyhedral protein microcompartment found in all cyanobacteria and in many chemoautotrophs, is filled with ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO), the enzyme that catalyzes the fixation of C[O.sub.2] onto ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate and produces two molecules of 3-phosphoglycerate.

Cellular, molecular and developmental biology

Contribution of symbiotic chemoautotrophs to the nutrition of benthic invertebrates.

The morphology of bacterial symbioses in the gills of mussels of the genera Adipicola and Idas (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)

Many of the larger animals that are present depend on chemoautotrophs, microbes that get energy directly from such compounds as the sulfides that swirl from hot-water vents and deteriorating whale bones.