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Achromatium oxaliferum (Schewiakoff 1893), a large colorless sulpher bacterium from bottom sediments of a stagnant freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho. Brightfield.
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Gallionella (gally-on-elle-a) one of the iron bacteria, the bacteria attach to surfaces and grow producing a mucus sheath which acquires metal salts as it ages. The bacteria live in a fine tube in the centre of the filament. Phase contrast.
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Photo credits. A, B, C, D, G – David Emerson; E, Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institution; F, Clara Cha
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Fe-oxidizing microbial matsFe-oxidizing microbial mats. A. Atypical freshwater iron mat in a slow-moving stream where Fe(II)-enriched groundwater is mixing with oxygenated surface water, resulting in growth of Fe-oxidizing bacteria and precipitation of iron oxides; B & C. phase contrast and epiflouresence images of the common sheath-forming Fe-oxidizer Leptothrix ochracea (bar = 5 µm); D, the stalk-forming Fe-oxidizer Gallionella ferruginea, note the bean-shaped cells in the process of cell division at the end of the Fe-oxide encrusted stalk (bar = 5 µm); E, an iron mat associated with a deep-sea hydrothermal vent (1000 mbsl) at Loihi Seamount; F, TEM image of biogenic oxides produced at Loihi, note the variety of helical stalks and tubular sheath-like filaments (bar = 10 µm); G, phase contrast image of unidentified Zetaproteobacteria that are marine Fe-oxidizers growing at the ends of iron-oxide filaments (cells denoted by arrows) from an in-situ incubation at Loihi (bar = 5 µm). Photo credits. A, B, C, D, G – David Emerson; E, Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institution; F, Clara Chan
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Spirillum Tournoyani (Ehr.), magnified....
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Canada Del Hoyo, Castille la Mancha, Spain
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A composite phase contrast micrograph of Mariprofundus ferrooxydans. The red arrows point to the bean shaped cells growing at the end of the stalk comprise primarily of iron oxyhydroxides. Note the cell recently divided causing a bifurcation in the stalk. Image courtesy of David Emerson
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Dozens of the curved bacteria fill the lumen of a gastric foveola. Hematoxylin & eosin stain, 1000X.
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Villoslada de Cameros, La Rioja, Spain
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Iron bacteria, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, in a stagnant creek
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Jason Sharp;Myakka, Manatee County, Florida
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Chromatium (chrome-ace-ee-um) is a red sulphur bacterium (or purple sulphur bacterium). It is found in sediments above the reduced zone. It uses solar energy to assist in the oxidation of hydrogen sulphide producing elemental sulphur which is deposited within the bacterial cell as sulphur granules. Photosynthetic pigments are pink which give the cell its distinctive colour. It is one of a variety of bacteria which metabolise sulphur compounds and deposit sulphur granules within the cells - both red (such as Thiocystis), and colourless (such as Beggiatoa, Achromatium, Thiovulvum, and others). Not all Chromatium are as large as this cell. Phase contrast.
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Achromatium oxaliferum (Schewiakoff 1893), a large colorless sulpher bacterium. The larger refractile spherical structures are calcite spherolites and the small globules adhering to them are granules of elemental sulphur. Collected from bottom sediments of a stagnant freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho.
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Accumulated accretions of iron bacteria found as epibionts on the leaves of the moss Hygrohypnum. Phase contrast.
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Phase contrast image of unidentified ZetaproteobacteriaPhase contrast image of unidentified Zetaproteobacteria that are marine Fe-oxidizers growing at the ends of iron-oxide filaments (cells denoted by arrows) from an in-situ incubation at Loihi (bar = 5 µm). Photo credit– David Emerson.
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Caada del Hoyo, Castilla-La Mancha, Espaa
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The organisms, scattered on and above the luminal surface, stain more boldly with the Giemsa technique. 1000X.
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