Thioploca chileae is a marine thioploca from the benthos of the Chilean continental shelf. It is a colonial, multicellular, gliding trichomes of similar diameter enclosed by a shared sheath. It possesses cellular sulfur inclusions located in a thin peripheral cytoplasm surrounding a large, central vacuole. It is a motile organism through gliding. The trichome diameters of Thioploca chileae range from 12 to 20 μm.[1]

Thioploca chileae
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T. chileae
Binomial name
Thioploca chileae
Maier and Gallardo 1984

References

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  1. ^ Maier, S.; Gallardo, V. A. (1984). "Thioploca araucae sp. nov. and Thioploca chileae sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 34 (4): 414–418. doi:10.1099/00207713-34-4-414. ISSN 0020-7713.

Further reading

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  • GALLARDO, VÍCTOR ARIEL, and CAROLA ESPINOZA. "BACTERIAS MARINAS GIGANTES."
  • Schulz, Heide N., et al. "Population study of the filamentous sulfur bacteria Thioploca spp. off the Bay of Concepción, Chile." Marine ecology. Progress series 200 (2000): 117–126.
  • Schulz, Heide N., et al. "Community structure of filamentous, sheath-building sulfur bacteria, Thioploca spp., off the coast of Chile." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62.6 (1996): 1855–1862.
  • Maier, Siegfried; Völker, Horst; Beese, Marita; Gallardo, Victor A. (1990). "The fine structure ofThioploca araucaeandThioploca chileae". Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 36 (6): 438–448. doi:10.1139/m90-077. ISSN 0008-4166.
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