Thioploca chileae explained

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]

Further reading

• 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.. The fine structure ofThioploca araucaeandThioploca chileae. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 36. 6. 1990. 438–448. 0008-4166. 10.1139/m90-077.

External links

• LPSN
  • WORMS

Notes and References

1. Maier. S.. Gallardo. V. A.. Thioploca araucae sp. nov. and Thioploca chileae sp. nov.. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 34. 4. 1984. 414–418. 0020-7713. 10.1099/00207713-34-4-414. free.