Thiomargarita namibiensis is a harmless, gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, coccoid bacterium found in the ocean sediments of the continental shelf...
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Thiomargarita is a genus (family Thiotrichaceae) which includes the vacuolate sulfur bacteria species Thiomargarita namibiensis, Candidatus Thiomargarita...
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size of these organisms. Cells of the large sulfur bacterium Thiomargarita namibiensis, discovered in 1999, contain a large sac (vacuole) filled with...
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The Thiotrichaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota, including Thiomargarita namibiensis, the largest known bacterium. Some species are movable by gliding...
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can vary in size from 0.2 μm (Mycoplasma genitalium) to 750 μm (Thiomargarita namibiensis). Prokaryotic cells have various shapes; the four basic shapes...
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are microscopic, with a few extremely rare exceptions, such as Thiomargarita namibiensis. Bacteria function and reproduce as individual cells, but they...
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eye—for example, Thiomargarita namibiensis is up to half a millimetre long, Epulopiscium fishelsoni reaches 0.7 mm, and Thiomargarita magnifica can reach...
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plastid. This is known as secondary endosymbiosis. The marine Thiomargarita namibiensis, the largest known bacterium Cyanobacteria blooms can contain...
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The Thiotrichales are an order of Pseudomonadota, including Thiomargarita magnifica, the largest known bacterium. They also include certain pathogens...
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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...
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in the cycling of silicon in the ocean. One anaerobic species, Thiomargarita namibiensis, plays an important part in the breakdown of hydrogen sulfide...
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sanctuary) in Wellington, New Zealand, completed. The bacterium Thiomargarita namibiensis is discovered off the coast of Namibia. At 0.3mm in diameter,...
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plastid. This is known as secondary endosymbiosis. The marine Thiomargarita namibiensis, largest known bacterium Cyanobacteria blooms can contain lethal...
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community are Roseobacter. The largest known bacterium, the marine Thiomargarita namibiensis, can be visible to the naked eye and sometimes attains 0.75 mm...
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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...
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"Uptake Rates of Oxygen and Sulfide Measured with Individual Thiomargarita namibiensis Cells by Using Microelectrodes". Applied and Environmental Microbiology...
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