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- adjective of or relating to
chemotropism
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Examples
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In some cases, new chemotrophic bacteria have been discovered.
If You Seal It Off, They Will Evolve - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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A few months after her Eureka moment, Losi, based at the University of Parma, began surfing through sequence databases and soon identified three species of chemotrophic bacteria that carried conserved LOV domains:
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"We were doing everything possible to avoid seeing the effects of light on microbes-that's basically the story of microbiology," says Mark Gomelsky at the University of Wyoming, who recently identified the BLUF domain, another type of blue-light protein that may be even more widely prevalent in chemotrophic bacteria than LOV.
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He's not the only microbiologist to be perplexed by the phenomenon; so far, the idea of light as a specific physiological signal in chemotrophic bacteria is still on the fringes of research-it's simply not something that microbiologists are used to considering.
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So far, researchers have demonstrated the physiological relevance of light to a small handful of chemotrophic bacterial species,
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Caulobacter is a chemotrophic organism, that is, it gets its energy from electron chemical reactions such as oxidation, not from sunlight.
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A few months after her Eureka moment, Losi, based at the University of Parma, began surfing through sequence databases and soon identified three species of chemotrophic bacteria that carried conserved LOV domains:
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