Scattered migrating colony formation in the filamentous cyanobacterium, Pseudanabaena sp. NIES-4403.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bacteria have been reported to exhibit complicated morphological colony patterns on solid media, depending on intracellular, and extracellular factors such as motility, cell propagation, and cell-cell interaction. We isolated the filamentous cyanobacterium, Pseudanabaena sp. NIES-4403 (Pseudanabaena, hereafter), that forms scattered (discrete) migrating colonies on solid media. While the scattered colony pattern has been observed in some bacterial species, the mechanism underlying such a pattern still remains obscure.

Results

We studied the morphology of Pseudanabaena migrating collectively and found that this species forms randomly scattered clusters varying in size and further consists of a mixture of comet-like wandering clusters and disk-like rotating clusters

SUBMITTER: Yamamoto H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8365994 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature