Microbiology 


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Picture contributed by Dennis Bazylinski.

This is a transmission electron micrograph of a negatively-stained cell of a magnetotactic bacterium. Note the dark (electron-dense) chain of magnetite mineral particles (magnetosomes) along the length of the cell and the single flagellum at each end of the cell which the cell uses to swim.


G.H.Beavers, © 07/2005,
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