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Published on: July 24, 2018
[Morphometric analysis of bacteria associated with soil Myriapoda]
Abstract:
Scanning electron microscopy revealed that the average cell size of bacteria associated with the digestive tract of soil Myriapoda was 0.65 microm in diameter, 1.36 microm in length, and 0.60 microm3 in volume. An example of Myriapoda illustrated that the intestinal tract bacteria of soil invertebrates shared the following features: (1) a high density level in this habitat; (2) existence mostly in the form of vegetative cells; (3) a cell size significantly smaller than that of bacteria functioning in soil; (4) a cell size closer to the lower limits of the size range characteristic for bacterial cultures grown in laboratory media. All this suggests that the bacterial community of the digestive tract differs from the typical soil community not only in composition, but also in a higher level of physiological activity.
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