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[[Category:Short pages]] ''Cthylla microfasciculumque'' is a small flagellate found in the hindgut of lower termites; specifically ''Reticulitermes virginicus''. This symbiont

...rmastigotes that have over 50,000 flagella and are large enough to be seen by the naked eye. ...the ocean, and the flagella of ''C. macrofasciculumque'' may remind people of squid-like tentacles.

[[Category:Short pages]] This strain of bacteria was isolated from the sludge of a waste water treatment plant in Gwangiu-si, Kyeonggi-do, South Korea

...have suggested that this organism is related to some of the earliest forms of life on Earth. The complete genome of M. thermoacetica was sequenced in 2008. Upon completion it was the first ac

...enebrarum 4.png|300px|thumb|right|Fig. 1. Cell morphology of strain RMAST by phase-contrast microscopy (a) and TEM (b and c). Electron micrographs were ...rods. They often occur in pairs. ''Tenebrarum'' translates to English as "of darkness." ''Methanothermobacter tenebrarum'' lives in deep terrestrial sub

...can survive water contaminated by radon, which is a radioactive by-product of uranium mining. ...es belong to one of six genera of ''Micromonosporaceae''. BLASTN analysis of 16srRNA gene on strain Y22 showed the microbe was in the genus ''Micromonos

...s optimal temperature is between 85-90ºC, which is the highest temperature of any bacterial organism [1]. ...ine iron oxide, which is a dense material, attached to it. It gains energy by reducing Fe (III).

...means thread-forming, sulfate reducer, mud-dweller, was described in 1983 by Widdel. [4, 5] ...ature and pH are 30 degrees Celcius and 7.6, respectively. The morphology of Desulfonema limicola allows the bacterium to glide and migrate within compa

[[Category:Short pages]] [[Category:Pages edited by students of Dr.Ned Walker at Michigan State University]]

[[Category:Pages edited by students of Dr.Ned Walker at Michigan State University]] ...r to compare and somewhat understand the adaptive and evolutionary aspects of Citricoccus.

...ic tree that shows the relationship of Geoglobus ahangari to other members of Archaea''. Image from [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/52/3/719.pdf ...leaved that the cell membranes of G. ahangari are similar to other members of Archaea, possesing three layers- a cytoplasmic membrane, a periplasmic spac

...hermophiles, it is a mesophile, meaning it grows at an optimal temperature of 20 – 40 ºC (5). The name vannielii is Latin, meaning “from Niel”. ...tanding of climate change. Methanogenesis also has implications as source of renewable bioenergy in engineered anaerobic digestion reactors. Further st

[[Category:Short pages]] ...the end of the cell interacting with myosin. And the extension is caused by the actin reassembling itself back into its body. This is how the Amoeba pr

...ldivirga_maquilingensis.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A demonstration of the shape of Caldivirga maquilingensis http://genome.jgi-psf.org/calma/calma.home.html]] ...determined that ''C. maquilingensis'' grew best at 85°C and at a pH range of 3.7-4.2.

[[Category:Pages edited by students of Dr.Ned Walker at Michigan State University]] ...ior end in C. macrofasciculumque gives it a similar appearance to the head of the monster Cthulhu. Macrofasciculumque refers to the many flagella on this

...oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas. Earthworms may account for more than 50% of the total nitrous oxide emitted form a soil they inhabit. ...e:Flavobacteriumtree.png|500px|thumb|left|Figure 2. Phylogenetic positions of ''flavobacterium dentitrificans'' is indicated here. ]]

[[File:TEM_Image_L_planktonicus.jpeg|300px|thumb|right|TEM image of L. planktonicus]] [[File:DAPI_L_planktonicus.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|DAPI image of L. planktonicus]]

...’ in ovaries of Encarsia parasitoid wasps. (a) Bacteria in a follicle cell of E. hispida. (b–d) Bacteria in sexual E. pergandiella nurse cells. (e) Bac ...m from the Bacteriodetes group. It is involved in reproduction alterations of arthropod host organisms including cytoplasmic incompatibility, parthenogen

...ecies, and details of it were generated from research conducted at Cornell University in 2009. This research reported detailed information regarding the species' ...ly along with acetate as a carbon source. This gives it the classification of chemolithoheterotroph [1].

...he utilization of geothermal energy, a clean source of energy. The impact of ''Thermoproteus neutrophilus'' could potentially affect the environment and [[File:Tn3.jpg|320px|thumb|center|Picture of ''Thermoproteus'']]

[[Image:m ferrooxydans.jpeg|thumb|310px|right|''M. ferrooxydans viewed by TEM.'']] ...errooxydans</i> is a marine iron-oxidizing bacteria and is the sole member of the Zetaproteobacteria class. <i>M. ferrooxydans</i> are a C-shaped, motile

...|thumb|alt=A large clock tower and other buildings line a great river.|TEM of ''D. alkaliarsenatis'']] ...aters substantially more safe. Because Searles lake contains high amounts of borate, this hinders the dissimilatory sulfate reduction pathway, making di

[[File:phylo.png|200px|thumb|right|Phylogenetic placement of Desulfomonile tiedjei (Häggblom, Knight, and Kerkhof, 1998.)]] ...ends and form a collar due to invagination of the cell wall. The function of the collar is for binary fission. This bacteria, is gram negative and escu

[[Image:Pyrite.jpg |thumb|left|alt=alt text|Percent pyrite removal by <i>M. sedula</i>(black) and control (white). Clark et. al.]] ...edula</i> is a highly thermoacidophilic Achaean that is unusually tolerant of heavy metals[1]. <br><br>

...nd PscA-like sequence in ''Cab. thermophilum'', Reproduced with permission of Dr. D. A. Bryant [http://www.bmb.psu.edu/faculty/bryant/lab/Project/Acido/i ...ersity. The research was funded by National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and the NASA Exobiology Program.[1]

...roteins and ATP synthase which are functional at high temperatures instead of denaturing [3]. ...hyperthermophile belonging to the same genus. Both BLAST hits had E-values of 0 meaning there is essentially a zero chance to find a score as good.

...de range of salinity. It can grow anywhere from 6-30% NaCl with an optimum of an astounding 27% (2). The archaeon utilizes only a limited range of substrates such as glucose, xylose, and fructose, for growth, and is unique

[[File:N thermophilus2.png|400px|thumb|right|Phylogenetic tree of N. thermophilus]] [[File:NThermophilus.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|Electron microscopy of ''N. thermophilus'']]

...:89-2228-1-PB.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Figure 1. Scanning electron micrograph of <i>D. acetiphilus</i> strain N2460T [3]]] ...liminating the need for expensive biocides currently used in the treatment of oil reserves. [3]

...nism and is found to be critical to scientific research into the evolution of photosynthetic organisms. [http://genome.jgi-psf.org/chlau/chlau.home.html] ...00px|thumb|right|Cellular structure of ''Chloroflexus aurantiacus''. Photo by Sylvia Herter.[http://genome.jgi-psf.org/chlau/chlau.home.html]]]

...e and its main metabolic process is reduction of Fe(III) and decomposition of organic material. ...ence of this strain is less than 94% similar to sequences of other members of Geobacteraceae. Therefore ''Geothermobacter ehrlichii'' represents a new g

...own to be resistant to environments with up to 1200 µg/mL of Cu, surviving by using phosphates to sequester the metal [3]. ...9 bp, 273,136 bp and 51,398 bp in size [8]. The 12 J strand also consists of two circular chromosomes 3,942,557 bp and 1,302,228 bp in size; but has on

...ion of the mycolic acid-containing taxa. Thetree was based on a comparison of sequences that were at least 90 % complete (with regard to E. coli sequence ...n acidic sandy loam Cambisol soil in a protected habitat in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil (Von der Weid, 2006).

...-services.bmb.psu.edu/bryant/lab/Project/Chloroflexi/index.html Penn State University]]] ...ii'' has no flagella and show signs of gliding motility. An unusual aspect of this organism is that it lacks chlorosomes, which can usually be found in r

[[Category:Pages edited by students at Michigan State University]] ...to find efficient control methods, knowledge of the physiology and ecology of the bacteria is important.

...adrum.jpeg|frame|Hyphae from ''Pythium oligandrum'' mycoparasitisng hyphae of ''Phytophthora infestans'']] ...ter (8). Interestingly, ''P. oligandrum'' can curb the pathogenic effects of parasitic oomycetes such as ''Phytophthora infestans''.

...reproduce by a unique way of budding, and its lack of a cell wall composed of peptidoglycan. ...vered thus far. The DNA does not contain chromosomes, but a circular piece of DNA that is characteristic to most all prokaryotes.

...pture of aortic aneurysm, ear infections[1], bacteraemia, rare occurrences of skin and soft tissue infections [8], bone and joint infections, and many ot ...wrongly to <i>Shewanella putrefaciens</i>. There has been a rising number of disease cases attributed to <i>S. algae</i> in the last decade, thanks to c

...table sugars in the world are the cell walls in higher plants, utilization of such a vast resource for energy production would reduce the dependency on n ...ported in ''C. cellulovorans''. ''C. cellulovorans'' contains large number of genes encoding non-cellulosomal enzymes which are more associated with poly

...microns long and have tufts of polar flagella that provide a small amount of motility (Ferry et. al. 1974). ...has a temperature range of 30-37&deg; Celsius (mesophilic) and a pH range of 6.6-7.4 (Ferry et. al. 1974).

...nose isomerase (coverts mannose to its 2 epimer glucose) causes a build up of mannose 6-phosphate and subsequent death (Rager et al). ...it thrives best in warm and wet climates, it can survive in a wide variety of habitats including water, soil, cold blooded animals, and warm blooded anim

...e Maps|Haliangium ochraceum was isolated from seaweed samples on the shore of Kanagawa, Japan.'']] H. ochraceum is the first myxobacterium of its kind to be found in the ocean; it is the first halophilic myxobacterium

[[Image:chlorobium.jpg|thumb|1000px|FIGURE 1. Typical shape and morphology of a bacteria in the genus ''Chlorobium'' (7).]] ...) and other members of the green sulfur bacteria phylum as well as members of the ''Cytophaga/Flavobacterium/Bacteroides'' phylum (1).]]

[[Image:Flav hib.png|thumb|300px|A photomicrograph of ''F. hibernum'' grown on nutrient-poor medium at 20C for 24hr (McCammon ''e ...ticTree.gif‎|thumb|left|300px|This chart displays the evolutionary biology of ''F. hibernum'' (McCammon ''et al.'', 1998).]]

...90930/ Evolutionary relationship of <em>P. stutzeri </em> to other members of Family Pseudomonadaceae]]] ...em> can be found. In soil, the organism has been found in the rhizosphere of cordgrass and other commonly grown plants including wheat, barley, and rice

[[File:treeoflife.jpg|400px|thumb|right|''Tree of Life'']] [[File:toluene.png|130px|thumb|right|Chemical structure of toluene]]

...or transcription, replication, and virion assembly, completely independent of the amoebae host's nucleus. [[Image: Sputnik Genome.jpg‎|thumb|250px|right|Figure 1. Diagram of the Sputnik Virophage genome [http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/

...niches within the water column, which lends evidence to solve the "paradox of the plankton". ...From [http://tolweb.org/Public/treeImages/Cryptomonas.png?x=440164009 Tree of Life Web Project]]]

...artments larger.jpg|thumb|275 × 275 px|right| Figure 1.A schematic diagram of compartments in E. coli. From Pugsley 57 (1) 50 1993 Microbiology and Mole ...s aided by targeting the proteins to particular cell locations and studies of bacterial toxin secretion may lead to novel therapeutic agents.

...200px|thumb|right|Phylogenetic tree by anaylsis of 16S rRNA gene sequences by [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/4/1093 Bozal et al.]]] ...ing these lakes and their microbes, we can better understand the evolution of microbe metabolism over time. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/yk83h067