Beggiatoa alba: Difference between revisions

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Domain: bacteria; Phylum: Pseudomonadota; Class: Gammaproteobacteria; Order: Thiotrichales; family: Beggiatoaceae

NCBI: [1]

Genus species

Description: Strains of colorless, filamentous, gliding bacteria, visible to the naked eye.

Size: Ranging from about 3.0 to 5.0 μm in diameter

Habitat: Lives at the oxic/anoxic interface of aquatic habitats in high concentrations of sulfide reaching toxic levels.

Importance: Due to its ability to detoxify sulfide, this microbe plays a huge role in the sulfur cycle of coastal environments.

Describe the size and content of the genome. How many chromosomes? Circular or linear? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence?

Interesting features of cell structure; how it gains energy; what important molecules it produces.

Habitat; symbiosis; biogeochemical significance; contributions to environment.

If relevant, how does this organism cause disease? Human, animal, plant hosts? Virulence factors, as well as patient symptoms.

Page authored by _Jakell Corbett_, student of Prof. Bradley Tolar at UNC Wilmington.

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 Size: Ranging from about 3.0 to 5.0 μm in diameter
-habitat: lives at the oxic/anoxic interface of aquatic habitats in high concentrations of sulfide reaching toxic levels.
+Habitat: Lives at the oxic/anoxic interface of aquatic habitats in high concentrations of sulfide reaching toxic levels.
-importance: Due to is ability to detoxify sulfide, this microbe plays a huge role in the sulfur cycle of coastal environments.
+Importance: Due to its ability to detoxify sulfide, this microbe plays a huge role in the sulfur cycle of coastal environments.
 ==Genome Structure==