filament & sheath
Description:
Plectonema (plecked-owe-knee-ma) is a filamentous cyanobacterium. Individual cells are more or less cylindrical, but typically have rounded ends and may be a little swollen centrally. The cells move slowly within a sheath - which can be seen here external to some dead cells of the filament. These particular cells were not particularly strongly coloured. Phase contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
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- Bacteria
- Cyanobacteria
- Oscillatoriales
- Oscillatoriaceae
- Plectonema
- Terrabacteria
- Cyanobacteria/Melainabacteria group
- Oscillatoriophycideae
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- David Patterson, Linda Amaral Zettler and Virginia Edgcomb
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