- like with flagella
Description:
Thiospirillum (thigh-ow-spire-ill-um) is one of the sulphur bacterium. Rather like Spirillum, cells take the form of short-cork-screw and have flagella at both ends of the cells. The flagella occur in very substantial tufts so can be seen easily seen with the light microscope. This cell was rather large. Phase contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
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- Bacteria
- Proteobacteria (Purple Bacteria & relatives)
- Gammaproteobacteria
- Chromatiales (purple sulfur bacteria and relatives)
- Chromatiaceae (purple sulfur bacteria)
- Thiospirillum
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