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==Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle== | ==Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle== | ||
''Oscillatoria'' is motile and moves by the means of microfibrils. They move in a gliding motion and tend to use this mobility to move towards light. | ''Oscillatoria'' is motile and moves by the means of microfibrils. They move in a gliding motion and tend to use this mobility to move towards light. [[#References | [2]]]Interesting features of its structure; how it gains energy (how it replicates, if virus); what important molecules it produces (if any), does it have an interesting life cycle? | ||
Interesting features of its structure; how it gains energy (how it replicates, if virus); what important molecules it produces (if any), does it have an interesting life cycle? | |||
==Ecology and Pathogenesis== | ==Ecology and Pathogenesis== |
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Classification
Bacteria (Kingdom), Negibacteria (SubKingdom), Cyanobacteria (Phylum), Cyanophyceae (Class), Oscillatoriales (Order), Oscillatoriaceae (Family)
Oscillatoria
Description and Significance
Oscillatoria is a cyanobacteria that is important because it can conduct photosynthetic activities. It has a long un-braching filamentous morphology and is color green due to the chlorophyll it contains. Some unique features that sets it apart from other cyanobacteria is that it is motile and can conduct anoxygenic photosynthesis. [1]
Structure, Metabolism, and Life Cycle
Oscillatoria is motile and moves by the means of microfibrils. They move in a gliding motion and tend to use this mobility to move towards light. [2]Interesting features of its structure; how it gains energy (how it replicates, if virus); what important molecules it produces (if any), does it have an interesting life cycle?
Ecology and Pathogenesis
Natural habitat (soil, water, commensal of humans or animals?)
If relevant, how does this organism cause disease? Human, animal, or plant hosts? Important virulence factors, as well as patient symptoms.
References
[1] EXAMPLE ONLY. REPLACE WITH YOUR REFERENCES. Takai, K., Sugai, A., Itoh, T., and Horikoshi, K. 2000. "Palaeococcus ferrophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 50: 489-500. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/50/2/489
Author
Page authored by Sue Lao, student of Mandy Brosnahan, Instructor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, MICB 3301/3303: Biology of Microorganisms.