Information AboutMyxobacteria |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT MYXOBACTERIA | |
| proteobacteria | |
The myxobacteria are a group of Bacteria that predominantly live in the soil. The myxobacteria have very large Genome s, relative to other bacteria, e.g. 9-10 million Nucleotide s. '' Polyangium Cellulosum '' has the largest known (as of 2003) bacterial genome, at 12.2 million Nucleotide s. Myxobacteria are included among the Proteobacteria , a large group of Gram-negative forms. Myxobacteria can move actively by Gliding . They typically travel in '' Swarm s'' (also known as ''wolf packs''), containing many Cell s kept together by intercellular molecular Signals . This close concentration of cells may be necessary to provide a high concentration of extracellular Enzyme s used to digest food. Myxobacteria produce a number of biomedically and industrially useful chemicals, such as Antibiotic s, and export those chemicals outside of the cell.1 }} FRUITING BODIES When nutrients are scarce, myxobacterial cells aggregate into ''fruiting bodies'', a process long-though to be mediated by s in other organisms, are meant to survive until nutrients are more plentiful. The fruiting process is thought to benefit myxobacteria by ensuring that Cell Growth is resumed with a group (swarm) of myxobacteria, rather than as isolated cells. Similar life cycles have developed among certain Amoebae , called cellular Slime Mould s. REFERENCES |
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