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Most bacteria obtain energy by either absorbing marine dissolved organic matter through their cell membranes - osmotrophy (literally feeding through 'osmosis' in fact the material taken up is simply not obviously particulate, osmosis has little to do with the mechanisms used).
Marine microbes 2009
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