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Phylogenetic affinity of a wide, vacuolate, nitrate-accumulating Beggiatoa sp. from Monterey Canyon, California, with Thioploca spp.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 1999
Ahmad A, Barry J P, Nelson D C
Abstract excerpt
Environmentally dominant members of the genus Beggiatoa and Thioploca spp. are united by unique morphological and physiological adaptations (S. C. McHatton, J. P. Barry, H. W. Jannasch, and D. C. Nelson, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:954-958, 1996). These adaptations include the presence of very wide filaments (width, 12 to 160 microm), the presence of a central vacuole comprising roughly 80% of the cellular...
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