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Gliding motility of the marine bacterium Saprospira grandis (Dark filed microscopy movie)

Species name: Saprospira grandis

Faculty of Life and Environmental Scienses, Prefectural University of Hiroshima Shin-ichi Aizawa

Saprospira grandis (phylum Bacteroidetes) is a, marine, multicellular, filamentous bacterium. S. grandis cells glide over the solid surface. They catch other bacteria on their cell surface and devouring them.

(2015.07.27)

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