PROTEOBACTERIA >> Gamma >> Thioploca >> Thioploca chileae
THIOPLOCA CHILEAE
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Thioploca |
| Species: | Thioploca chileae |
| Description: | Flexible, uniseriate trichomes made up of numerous, vacuolated cells, generally with numerous sulfur inclusions, occur in parallel or braided fascicles, which are enclosed by a common sheath of variable width. The number of trichomes within a sheath is variable. The sheath is frequently encrusted with detritus. Individual trichomes show independent gliding movement, and they may emerge from the ends of sheaths or from breaks in a sheath. The long trichomes are of uniform diameter, and their terminal segments are often tapered. Trichome diameters are 12 to 20 μm. Cell length, exclusive of the terminal cell, varies from 7 to 26 μm. The trichomes in a sheath may be accompanied by trichomes of other thioplocas with different diameters. |
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| Source: | Identified from the benthos of the Pacific Ocean South American continental shelf. |
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| Genbank: | L41043.1(16s rRNA) [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
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| Reference: | MAIER (S.) and GALLARDO (V.A.): Thioploca araucae sp. nov. and Thioploca chileae sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1984, 34, 414-418. |
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