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Comparative proteomics and activity of a green sulfur bacterium through the water column of Lake Cadagno, Switzerland.

Environ Microbiol

January 2011

Department of Biology and Nordic Center for Earth EvolutionDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.Cantonal Institute of Microbiology, CH-6500 Bellinzona and Microbial Ecology and Microbiology Unit, Plant Biology Department, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.Alpine Biology Center Foundation Piora, Quinto, Switzerland.

Primary production in the meromictic Lake Cadagno, Switzerland, is dominated by anoxygenic photosynthesis. The green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium clathratiforme is the dominant phototrophic organism in the lake, comprising more than half of the bacterial population, and its biomass increases 3.8-fold over the summer.

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