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LIGHT has been found to stimulate the production of hydrogen sulphide in the unicellular blue-green alga Synechococcus lividus Copeland (axenic clone Y 52). The culture was initially isolated in 1964 from one of the Fairy Springs, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. The cells were collected at 52° C and the thiosulphate ion content of the water was probably about 9.0 p.p.m. (ref. 1).
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SHERIDAN, R., CASTENHOLZ, R. Production of Hydrogen Sulphide by a Thermophilic Blue-green Alga. Nature 217, 1063–1064 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2171063a0
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