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. 1968 Sep;16(9):1364–1369. doi: 10.1128/am.16.9.1364-1369.1968

Sphaerotilus Growing in a Continuous-Flow Apparatus

Calcium Nutrition of1

F F Dias 1,2, Harold Okrend 1,3, N C Dondero 1,4
PMCID: PMC547656  PMID: 4970993

Abstract

Sphaerotilus natans required calcium for the production of sheaths and probably requires calcium for growth as well, though at a lower concentration. Neither strontium nor barium substituted for calcium. S. natans grew attached to the culture vessels of the continuous-flow apparatus even when no sheaths were produced. Tentative evidence showed that the requirement for calcium is shared by the manganese-oxidizing species S. discophorus.

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