bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/420927; this version posted September 18, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. 1 2 3 Anoxygenic Photosynthesis and Dark Carbon Metabolism 4 under micro-oxic conditions in the Purple Sulfur Bacterium 5 “Thiodictyon syntrophicum“ nov. strain Cad16T 6 7 8 Samuel M Luedin 1 2 3*, Nicola Storelli 2, Francesco Danza 1 2, Samuele Roman 2 4, 9 Matthias Wittwer 3, Joël F Pothier 5 and Mauro Tonolla 1 2 4‡ 10 11 12 1 Microbiology Unit, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, 13 Geneva, Switzerland 14 2 Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Department of Environment, Constructions and 15 Design, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Bellinzona, 16 Switzerland 17 3 Biology Division, Spiez Laboratory, Federal Office for Civil Protection, Spiez, Switzerland 18 4 Alpine Biology Center Foundation, via Mirasole 22a, Bellinzona, Switzerland 19 5 Environmental Genomics and System Biology Research Group, Institute of Natural 20 Resource Sciences, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland 21 22 Corresponding Authors 23 *Samuel Luedin 24
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