Editing Primary nutritional groups (section)

==Primary metabolism table==
The following table gives some examples for each nutritional group:<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lwoff A, Van Niel CB, Ryan TF, Tatum EL | title = Nomenclature of nutritional types of microorganisms. | journal = Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology | edition = 5th | date = 1946 | volume = 11 | pages = 302–3 | url = http://symposium.cshlp.org/content/11/local/back-matter.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Andrews JH | date = 1991 | title = Comparative Ecology of Microorganisms and Macroorganisms | publisher = Springer | pages = 68 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZDhBwAAQBAJ | isbn = 978-0-387-97439-2 }}</ref><ref name="pmid23443991">{{cite journal | vauthors = Yafremava LS, Wielgos M, Thomas S, Nasir A, Wang M, Mittenthal JE, Caetano-Anollés G | title = A general framework of persistence strategies for biological systems helps explain domains of life | journal = Frontiers in Genetics | volume = 4 | pages = 16 | date = 2013 | pmid = 23443991 | pmc = 3580334 | doi = 10.3389/fgene.2013.00016 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | veditors = [[Lynn Margulis|Margulis L]], McKhann HI, Olendzenski L | title = Illustrated Glossary of Protoctista: Vocabulary of the Algae, Apicomplexa, Ciliates, Foraminifera, Microspora, Water Molds, Slime Molds, and the Other Protoctists | publisher = Jones & Bartlett Learning | date = 1993 | pages = xxv | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=y55Efu3baksC | isbn = 978-0-86720-081-2 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
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! Energy<br>source
! Electron/<br>H-atom<br>donor
! Carbon source
! Name
! Examples
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|rowspan="4" style="background: #ddffdd"| Sun Light<br>''[[phototroph|Photo-]]''
|rowspan="2" style="background: #ffdfcc"| Organic<br>''[[organotroph|-organo-]]''
|style="background: #ffbfbf"| Organic<br>''[[heterotroph|-heterotroph]]''
| <span style="color:#008800;">Photo</span><span style="color:#888800;">organo</span><span style="color:#880000;">heterotroph</span>
|Some bacteria (''[[Rhodobacter capsulatus]]'', [[Heliobacteria]]) and some archaea ([[Haloarchaea]])<ref name="Morris 2019">Morris, J. et al. (2019). "Biology: How Life Works", 3rd edition, W. H. Freeman. {{ISBN|978-1319017637}}</ref>
|-
|style="background: #bfdfff"| Carbon dioxide<br>''[[autotroph|-autotroph]]''
|  <span style="color:#008800;">Photo</span><span style="color:#888800;">organo</span><span style="color:#000088;">autotroph</span>
|Some bacteria perform anoxygenic photosynthesis and fix atmospheric carbon (''[[Chloroflexia]]'')
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background: #dfbfff"| Inorganic<br>''[[lithotroph|-litho-]]''*
|style="background: #ffbfbf"| Organic<br>''-heterotroph''
| <span style="color:#008800;">Photo</span><span style="color:#880088;">litho</span><span style="color:#880000;">heterotroph</span>
|[[Purple non-sulfur bacteria]]
|-
|style="background: #bfdfff"| Carbon dioxide<br>''-autotroph''
| <span style="color:#008800;">Photo</span><span style="color:#880088;">litho</span><span style="color:#000088;">autotroph</span>
| Some bacteria ([[cyanobacteria]]), some eukaryotes ([[algae|eukaryotic algae]], [[land plants]]). [[Photosynthesis]]. 
|-
|rowspan="4" style="background: #ffdddd"| Breaking<br> Chemical<br> Compounds<br>''[[Chemotroph|Chemo-]]''
|rowspan="2" style="background: #ffdfcc"| Organic<br>''-organo-''
|style="background: #ffbfbf"| Organic<br>''-heterotroph''
| <span style="color:#840048;">Chemo</span><span style="color:#888800;">organo</span><span style="color:#880000;">heterotroph</span>
| [[Bacteria#Predators|Predatory]], [[parasite|parasitic]], and [[saprophyte|saprophytic]] prokaryotes. Some eukaryotes (heterotrophic [[protist]]s, [[fungi]], [[animal]]s)

|-
|style="background: #bfdfff"| Carbon dioxide<br>''-autotroph''
| <span style="color:#840048;">Chemo</span><span style="color:#888800;">organo</span><span style="color:#000088;">autotroph</span>
| Some archaea ([[Anaerobic oxidation of methane|anaerobic methanotrophic archaea]]).<ref name="pmid23129626">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kellermann MY, Wegener G, Elvert M, Yoshinaga MY, Lin YS, Holler T, Mollar XP, Knittel K, Hinrichs KU | display-authors = 6 | title = Autotrophy as a predominant mode of carbon fixation in anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial communities | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 109 | issue = 47 | pages = 19321–6 | date = November 2012 | pmid = 23129626 | pmc = 3511159 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1208795109 | bibcode = 2012PNAS..10919321K | doi-access = free }}</ref> [[Chemosynthesis]], synthetically autotrophic ''[[Escherichia coli]]'' bacteria<ref name=Gleizer19>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gleizer S, Ben-Nissan R, Bar-On YM, Antonovsky N, Noor E, Zohar Y, Jona G, Krieger E, Shamshoum M, Bar-Even A, Milo R | display-authors = 6 | title = Conversion of Escherichia coli to Generate All Biomass Carbon from CO<sub>2</sub> | journal = Cell | volume = 179 | issue = 6 | pages = 1255–1263.e12 | date = November 2019 | pmid = 31778652 | pmc = 6904909 | doi = 10.1016/j.cell.2019.11.009 }}</ref> and ''[[Pichia pastoris]]'' yeast.<ref name=Gassler19>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gassler T, Sauer M, Gasser B, Egermeier M, Troyer C, Causon T, Hann S, Mattanovich D, Steiger MG | display-authors = 6 | title = The industrial yeast ''Pichia pastoris'' is converted from a heterotroph into an autotroph capable of growth on CO<sub>2</sub> | journal = Nature Biotechnology | volume = 38 | issue = 2 | pages = 210–6 | date = December 2019 | pmid = 31844294 | doi = 10.1038/s41587-019-0363-0 | pmc = 7008030 }}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="2" style="background: #dfbfff"| Inorganic<br>''-litho-''*
|style="background: #ffbfbf"| Organic<br>''-heterotroph''
| <span style="color:#840048;">Chemo</span><span style="color:#880088;">litho</span><span style="color:#880000;">heterotroph</span>
|Some bacteria (''[[Oceanithermus profundus]]'')<ref name="pmid12807196">{{cite journal | vauthors = Miroshnichenko ML, L'Haridon S, Jeanthon C, Antipov AN, Kostrikina NA, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Spring S, Stackebrandt E, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA | display-authors = 6 | title = ''Oceanithermus profundus'' gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, facultatively chemolithoheterotrophic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent | journal = International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | volume = 53 | issue = Pt 3 | pages = 747–52 | date = May 2003 | pmid = 12807196 | doi = 10.1099/ijs.0.02367-0 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
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|style="background: #bfdfff"| Carbon dioxide<br>''-autotroph''
| <span style="color:#840048;">Chemo</span><span style="color:#880088;">litho</span><span style="color:#000088;">autotroph</span>
|Some bacteria (''[[Nitrobacter]]''), some archaea (''[[Methanobacteria]]''). [[Chemosynthesis]].
|}

<nowiki />*Some authors use ''-hydro-'' when the source is water.

{{Wiktionary|-troph}}
The common final part ''-troph'' is from Ancient Greek {{wikt-lang|grc|τροφή}} {{transliteration|grc|trophḗ}} "nutrition".