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This book sets out to describe the metabolic processes by which micro-organisms can use and produce reduced C1 compounds. By this term we mean compounds of carbon that are more reduced than carbon dioxide (CO2) and which contain no carbon — carbon bonds, although some contain more than one carbon atom. A list of compounds of this type is given in Table 1.1.
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Large, P.J. (1983). The Biology and Ecology of Micro-organisms Metabolizing C1 compounds. In: Methylotrophy and Methanogenesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3169-5_1
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