Search
Results:
The Curious Microbe: Giant
But in the warm waters of the Red Sea, and off the coast of Australia, the largest bacteria ever seen have been discovered in the guts of a fish. Epulopiscium fischelsoni is a bacterium of mammoth...
Jack's "Bugs in the News" - Bacteria Have Babies!
Fishelson, the bacterium, Epulopiscium fishelsoni , is one member of Epulopiscium spp. which, in a symbiotic relationship, lives in the gut of a Red Sea surgeonfish - to wit:
Epulopiscium sp Genome Project Information (GenomeSeek)
GenomeSeek entry for Epulopiscium sp.
Taxonomy Index - MicrobeWiki
Epulopiscium. Erythrobacter. Erythromicrobium. Escherichia. Flavobacterium. Flexibacter... This page was last modified 19:34, 21 August 2006. This page has been accessed 17,824 times...
faculty.plattsburgh.edu
Epulopiscium. What you should know: Epulopiscium is among the largest known procaryotes at ~ 500 μ m in length (seen here next to the smaller Paramecium)
Jack's "Bugs in the News" - The "Big" One
Take a gander at some relative sizes of living cells by accessing Jim Sullivan's Page at: Cells Alive! This bug we are presently discussing, Epulopiscium fishelsoni is almost 250 micrometers!
Microbial Biorealm - MicrobeWiki
Clostridium; Dehalobacter; Epulopiscium; Ruminococcus. Lactobacillales. Enterococcus; Lactobacillus; Streptococcus; Mollicutes. Erysipelothrix; Mycoplasma. Nitrospirae. Nitrospirales
Facinating Facts About Bacteria
The smallest bacterium have sizes down to 0.1 - 0.2 microns. Looking at it the other way, there is a giant bacterium found in Sturgeon fish. This bacterium called Epulopiscium fishelsoni is over 0.5...
Pollak/Big Bad Bug
Although only one form has been named ( Epulopiscium fishelsoni ; Montgomery and Pollak 1988a), 10 structural "morphs" of these symbionts (differing in maximum size, shape and reproductive traits...
