Thiomargarita
| Thiomargarita | |
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| Stained micrograph of Thiomargarita namibiensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Thiotrichales |
| Family: | Thiotrichaceae |
| Genus: | Thiomargarita Schulz et al. 1999[1][2] |
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Thiomargarita is a genus (family
sulfur bacteria species Thiomargarita namibiensis, Candidatus Thiomargarita nelsonii, and Ca. Thiomargarita joergensii.[4] In 2022, scientists working in a Caribbean mangrove discovered an extremely large member of the genus, provisionally named Ca. T. magnifica, whose cells are easily visible to the naked eye at up to 2 centimetres (0.79 in) long.[5]
Representatives of this genus can be found in a variety of environments that are rich in
Calvin Benson Bassham cycle and possibly the reverse Krebs cycle.[6]
References
- ^ "Thiomargarita". NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
Lineage( full ) cellular organisms; Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Thiotrichales; Thiotrichaceae
- ^ Schulz, H.N., Brinkhoff, T., Ferdelman, T.G., Marine, M.H., Teske, A., Jorgensen, B.B. "Dense populations of a giant sulfur bacterium in Namibian shelf sediments." Science (1999) 284:493-495.
- ^ Volland, Jean-Marie; Gonzalez Rizzo, Silvina; Gros, Olivier; Tyml, Tomáš; Ivanova, Natalia; Schulz, Frederik; Goudeau, Danielle; Elisabeth, Nathalie H; Nath, Nandita; Udwary, Daniel; Malmstrom, Rex R; Guidi-Rontani, Chantal; Bolte-Kluge, Susanne; Davies, Karen M; Jean, Maïtena R; Mansot, Jean-Louis; Mouncey, Nigel J; Angert, Esther; Woyke, Tanja; Date, Shailesh V (23 Jun 2022), A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA compartmentalized in membrane-bound organelles, vol. 376, Science, pp. 1453–1458
- PMID 21498017.
- . Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- PMID 27199933.
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