Fe(III) Oxide Reduction by a Gram-positive Thermophile: Physiological Mechanisms for Dissimilatory Reduction of Poorly Crystalline Fe(III) Oxide by a Thermophilic Gram-positive Bacterium Carboxydothermus ferrireducens

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