Moderately thermophilic magnetotactic bacteria from hot springs in Nevada.

ABSTRACT: Populations of a moderately thermophilic magnetotactic bacterium were discovered in Great Boiling Springs, Nevada, ranging from 32 to 63 degrees C. Cells were small, Gram-negative, vibrioid to helicoid in morphology, and biomineralized a chain of bullet-shaped magnetite magnetosomes. Phylogenetically, based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing, the organism belongs to the phylum Nitrospirae.

SUBMITTER: Lefevre CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2876459 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature