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It was the first report of a chemotrophic ecosystem in the Antarctic.

From Nature • Sep. 25, 2017

Some chemotrophic organisms can also use their organic energy-supplying molecules as a carbon supply, which would make them chemoheterotrophs.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015