Thiomargarita namibiensis is a harmless, gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, coccoid bacterium found in the ocean sediments of the continental shelf...

Thiomargarita is a genus (family Thiotrichaceae) which includes the vacuolate sulfur bacteria species Thiomargarita namibiensis, Candidatus Thiomargarita...

size of these organisms. Cells of the large sulfur bacterium Thiomargarita namibiensis, discovered in 1999, contain a large sac (vacuole) filled with...

The Thiotrichaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota, including Thiomargarita namibiensis, the largest known bacterium. Some species are movable by gliding...

can vary in size from 0.2 μm (Mycoplasma genitalium) to 750 μm (Thiomargarita namibiensis). Prokaryotic cells have various shapes; the four basic shapes...

are microscopic, with a few extremely rare exceptions, such as Thiomargarita namibiensis. Bacteria function and reproduce as individual cells, but they...

eye—for example, Thiomargarita namibiensis is up to half a millimetre long, Epulopiscium fishelsoni reaches 0.7 mm, and Thiomargarita magnifica can reach...

plastid. This is known as secondary endosymbiosis. The marine Thiomargarita namibiensis, the largest known bacterium Cyanobacteria blooms can contain...

The Thiotrichales are an order of Pseudomonadota, including Thiomargarita magnifica, the largest known bacterium. They also include certain pathogens...

from 0.2 - 0.7 mm (200–700 μm) in length. Until the discovery of Thiomargarita namibiensis in 1999, Epulonipiscium species were thought to be the largest...

in the cycling of silicon in the ocean. One anaerobic species, Thiomargarita namibiensis, plays an important part in the breakdown of hydrogen sulfide...

sanctuary) in Wellington, New Zealand, completed. The bacterium Thiomargarita namibiensis is discovered off the coast of Namibia. At 0.3mm in diameter,...

plastid. This is known as secondary endosymbiosis. The marine Thiomargarita namibiensis, largest known bacterium Cyanobacteria blooms can contain lethal...

community are Roseobacter. The largest known bacterium, the marine Thiomargarita namibiensis, can be visible to the naked eye and sometimes attains 0.75 mm...

of the central area of a human cornea 750 μm – diameter of a Thiomargarita namibiensis, the largest bacteria known 760 μm – thickness of an identification...

"Uptake Rates of Oxygen and Sulfide Measured with Individual Thiomargarita namibiensis Cells by Using Microelectrodes". Applied and Environmental Microbiology...