lithoautotroph
(noun)
A microbe that takes energy from reduced compounds of minerals.
Examples of lithoautotroph in the following topics:
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Nongenetic Categories for Medicine and Ecology
- Lithoautotroph: derives energy from reduced compounds of mineral origin.
- Lithoautotrophs are exclusively microbes and most are bacteria.
- For lithoautotrophic bacteria, only inorganic molecules can be used as energy sources.
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Archaeoglobus
- Archaeoglobus are lithotrophs, and can be either autotrophic or heterotrophic.The archaeoglobus strain A. lithotrophicus are lithoautotrophs, and derive their energy from hydrogen, sulfate and carbon dioxide.