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- ↑ Straininfo of Thauera selenatis
- ↑ Macy, JM; Rech, S; Auling, G; Dorsch, M; Stackebrandt, E; Sly, LI (January 1993). "Thauera selenatis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the beta subclass of Proteobacteria with a novel type of anaerobic respiration". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 43 (1): 135–42. doi: 10.1099/00207713-43-1-135 . PMID 8427805.
- ↑ UniProt
- ↑ Schröder, I; Rech, S; Krafft, T; Macy, JM (September 1997). "Purification and characterization of the selenate reductase from Thauera selenatis". J. Biol. Chem. 272 (38): 23765–8. doi: 10.1074/jbc.272.38.23765 . PMID 9295321.
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