Atmospheric chemosynthesis uses energy liberated from the oxidation of atmospheric hydrogen to drive the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) cycle through a new chemotrophic form of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO), designated IE. https://
reminder that there are organisms which derive energy solely from hydrogen gas in the atmosphere https://t.co/ezJPloRwj4
EXACTLY what I needed today lol https://t.co/bgvsDAtWZc.
@feline_cannon Right! So this analysis was all at the community (biome) level, so those totally could be in there. Here's a more recent analysis showing that this is a more general thing in a lot of cold environments: Proteobacteria are part of the communi