Chemotropic bacteria

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The property of chemotropicity testifies to the balance of the redox layer system with respect to the vertical fluxes of the oxidants and reductants supplied. This should be the well-defined sequence of changes with depth of the favorability of the potential redox reactions [ 17,75] that can be realized by the bacterial community. The development of bacteria in this case should affect the distributions of nutrients. By modern estimation [79] the chemosynthetic production is comparable with photosynthetic production, and that should in the same manner affect the consumption of inorganic nutrients and production of their organic forms. Besides this the possible abiotic chemical reactions and the sedimentation of particulate matter of different densities should also play their roles in this mechanism. 

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