The capability to oxidize sulfide and store sulfur are the main features which separates Beggiatoa and closely related Thioploca as filamentous colorless sulfur bacteria from other filamentous bacteria (like cyanobacteria and the nonsulfur-oxidizing Cytophaga and Flexibacter) Another defining feature is the ability to store nitrate inside the vacuoles of the wide marine species' cells. (wikipedia.org)
Although they are Gram-negative bacteria, Beggiatoa show unusual cell-wall and membrane organization. (wikipedia.org)
Sulfur bacteria (Thiobacillus, Beggiatoa) gain energy by oxidizing hydrogen sulfide to sulfur. (biologywise.com)
Thiobacillus species are often found in both marine and fresh water sediments, other species of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria such as Beggiatoa can grow on sulfide, which is confirmed by the presence of intra-or extra sulfur granules in the cell. (yale.edu)
They also saw splotches of white, associated with Beggiatoa, a type of bacteria that lives in fresh and marine water and grows in low-oxygen environments. (keypennews.org)
The field of bacteriology (later a subdiscipline of microbiology) was founded in the 19th century by Ferdinand Cohn, a botanist whose studies on algae and photosynthetic bacteria led him to describe several bacteria including Bacillus and Beggiatoa. (yugrat.ru)
The field of bacteriology (later a subdiscipline of microbiology) is generally considered to have been founded by Ferdinand Cohn ( 1828 - 1898 ), a botanist whose studies on algae and photosynthetic bacteria led him to describe several bacteria including Bacillus and Beggiatoa . (wikidoc.org)
Filaments6
An important study about the genomic of Beggiatoa analyzed the sequences obtained from two single filaments of a vacuolated strain. (wikipedia.org)
The colorless cells of Beggiatoa are in free filaments, 1-30x4-20μm in size. (microbialtec.com)
The filaments of Beggiatoa alba are 2.5-5.0 microns wide. (microbialtec.com)
The filaments of Beggiatoa gigantea are 26-55μm wide and the cell fragments are 5-13μm long. (microbialtec.com)
The filaments of Beggiatoa leptomitiformis are 1-2μm wide and the cell fragments are 4-8μm long. (microbialtec.com)
White mats were composed of attached filaments resembling Beggiatoa (19.3 ± 0.5 μm, 39.0 ± 1.7 μm, and 66.9 ± 3.3 μm in diameter) and Thiothrix (4.2 ± 0.2 μm in diameter). (usf.edu)
Hydrogen2
During his research in Anton de Bary's laboratory of botany in 1887, he found that Beggiatoa oxidized hydrogen sulfide (H2S) as an energy source, forming intracellular sulfur droplets, with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor and CO2 used as a carbon source. (wikipedia.org)
He reported that Beggiatoa oxidized hydrogen sulphide as an energy source and formed intracellular sulphur droplets. (scind.org)
NCBI1
According to NCBI database only two species of Beggiatoa spp. (wikipedia.org)
Thioploca1
We hypothesised that his could be attributed to intracellular nitrate pools from nitrate accumulating microorganisms like Thioploca or Beggiatoa. (essex.ac.uk)
Species5
Two species of Beggiatoa have been formally described: the type species Beggiatoa alba and Beggiatoa leptomitoformis, the latter of which was only published in 2017. (wikipedia.org)
Species of Beggiatoa have cells up to 200 µm in diameter and they are one of the largest prokaryotes on Earth. (wikipedia.org)
The Neo-type strain is the B18LB and it settled the criteria for identification of the freshwater species Beggiatoa alba. (wikipedia.org)
Still, it is Sinterklaas so I'll be helpful - Beggiatoa species are all big bugs that like to eat reduced sulphur compounds. (bio.net)
For standard hard bottom benthic surveys, video of the ocean floor is collected from the edge of the containment array outwards to a distance of at least 152m from the facility or until the indicator species Beggiatoa and OPCs are no longer observed. (seamor.com)
Alba2
have been validly published: Beggiatoa alba, and Beggiatoa leptomitoformis. (wikipedia.org)
Beggiatoa alba show a GC content between 40 and 42.7 mol%, the presence of two or three similar plasmids and the genome size of Beggiatoa alba strain B18LD result to be about 3 Megabase (Mb). (wikipedia.org)
This service can help you obtain cultures of Beggiatoa for subsequent scientific research. (microbialtec.com)
Analysis1
Cyanobacteria) for the morphology and motility characters, but 5S rRNA analysis showed that members of Beggiatoa are phylogenetically distant from Cyanobacteria being members of the Gammaproteobacteria phylum. (wikipedia.org)
Forming intracellular1
During his research in Anton de Bary's laboratory of botany in 1887, he found that Beggiatoa oxidized hydrogen sulfide (H2S) as an energy source, forming intracellular sulfur droplets, with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor and CO2 used as a carbon source. (wikipedia.org)
Soil1
Beggiatoa) add sulphur into the soil by converting H2S into sulphates. (neetexambooster.in)