Thioploca spp.: filamentous sulfur bacte
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Bo Barker Jørgensen; Victor A Gallardo
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Thioploca spp. are multicellular, filamentous, colorless sulfur bacteria inhabiting freshwater and marine sediments. They have elemental sulfur inclusions similar to the phylogenetically closely related Beggiatoa, but in contrast to these they live in bundles surrounded by a common sheath. Vast comm