filament tip

Description:
Trichodesmium (try-koe-des-me-um) is a filamentous cyanobacterium (blue-green alga). It may form blooms or rafts. A significant contributor to nitrogen fixation in the oceans. Differential interference microscopy.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Bacteria
- Cyanobacteria
- Oscillatoriales
- Microcoleaceae
- Terrabacteria
- Cyanobacteria/Melainabacteria group
- Trichodesmium (Cyanobacteria)
- Oscillatoriophycideae
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