film
Description:
This image is of a thick brittle film of iron bacteria that formed over the surface of some water taken from the margins of the lake. The bacteria produce tubes of extracellular mucoid material that absorbs metal ions and becomes brown as it ages.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Bacteria
- Proteobacteria (Purple Bacteria & relatives)
- Betaproteobacteria
- Nitrosomonadales
- Gallionellaceae (iron bacteria)
- Gallionella
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- cc-by-nc
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- David Patterson
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