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Chloroflexus (cloe-row-flecks-us) is a filamentous green prokaryote, but not a cyanobacterium. It is common in some of the microbial mats which cover the sediments at some of the thermal sites. This image shows a few dispersed filaments. Phase contrast. Material provided by Mike Ferris from Mushroom Spring, a thermal site within Yellowstone Park, photographs by Mike Ferris and David Patterson.
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Chloroflexus (cloe-row-flecks-us) is a filamentous green prokaryote, but not a cyanobacterium. It is common in some of the microbial mats which cover the sediments at some of the thermal sites. This image shows a mass of tightly intertwined cells. Phase contrast. Material provided by Mike Ferris from Mushroom Spring, a thermal site within Yellowstone National Park, photographs by Mike Ferris and David Patterson.
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Chloroflexus (cloe-row-flecks-us) is a filamentous green prokaryote, but not a cyanobacterium. It is common in lower reddish regions of some of the microbial mats which cover the sediments at some of the thermal sites. This is a small piece of such a mat. Material provided by Mike Ferris from Mushroom Spring, a thermal site within Yellowstone National Park, photograph provided by Mike Ferris and David Ward.
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Chloroflexus (clore-owe-lfex-us), this pair of matched micrographs shows bacteria, (mostly Synechococcus and Chloroflexus) from a mat sample. The phase contrast shot to the left shows the bacteria, the image to the right shows autofluorescence. The Chloroflexus cells do not exhibit autofluorescence. Phase contrast and fluorescence. Material provided by Mike Ferris from Mushroom Spring, a thermal site in Yellowstone National Park, photographs by Mike Ferris and David Patterson.
