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26/06/22 08:35 AM IST

World's biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp

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  • Scientists have discovered the world's largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove swamp.
Largest  Bacterium
  • Named Thiomargarita Magnifica, they live by oxidizing sulfur and are 50 times bigger than any other known bacteria
  • The thin white filament, approximately the size of a human eyelash, is “by far the largest bacterium known to date,
  • “What is very unique about the T. Magnifica is that the entire filament, which is among the longest filaments in the mangrove, is just one cell,”
  • Central to the bacterium is its vacuole — an inert, fluid-filled membrane. Around the edge of this are membrane-bound structures, which the authors call “pepins” and describe as being similar to the organelles found mostly in eukaryotic cells. The “pepins” collectively host up to 700,000 copies of the genome.
Source- The Hindu 

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