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myxobacteria::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gliding bacteria, myxobacter, myxobacterium, slime bacteria |
| Type of | eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria |
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But in 1979, researchers at Stanford University created mutant forms of the soil myxobacteria that didn't have any pili.
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Except that it does come with one big drawback, as the case of the slime bacteria, or myxobacteria, illustrates.
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Myxobacteria have 250 nozzles located on each end.
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Epothilone, which comes from soil-dwelling organisms called myxobacteria, stops cancer cells dividing as taxol does.
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Most prokaryotes are unicellular, but a few such as myxobacteria have multicellular stages in their life cycles.
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For years researchers thought that the soil-dwelling myxobacteria and cyanobacteria use slime as a lubricant, just as slugs do.
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Myxobacteria are micrometre-scale filament-shaped organisms that glide along surfaces, leaving a trail of slime in their wake.
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If food becomes sparse, many myxobacteria will commit suicide, and this selfless act releases raw materials that go towards protecting the others.
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They are almost always unicellular, although some species such as myxobacteria can aggregate into complex structures as part of their life cycle.
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- Bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste
- The myxobacteria ("slime bacteria") are a group of bacteria that predominantly live in the soil. The myxobacteria have very large genomes, relative to other bacteria, e.g. 9-10 million nucleotides. Sorangium cellulosum has the largest known (as of 2008) bacterial genome, at 13. ...
