| This was presumably due to the difficulty in culturing Nitrosomonas, an obligate chemoautotroph that grows poorly on organic-based media. |
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| The energy exchange between natural semiconductor minerals and chemoautotroph microbes was investigated in details in this paper. |
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| A chemoautotroph is an organism which utilises inorganic compounds as principal carbon source and chemicals as an energy source. |
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| The results showed that most of bioleaching microbial communities were affiliated with the chemoautotroph bacteria. |
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| Chemoautotroph population can evidently be considered reliable, since they were checked by determining the correspondence between the simulation results and experimental data. |
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