What's new is old: resolving the identity of Leptothrix ochracea using single cell genomics, pyrosequencing and FISH.

What's new is old: resolving the identity of Leptothrix ochracea using single cell genomics, pyrosequencing and FISH.

Leptothrix ochracea is a common inhabitant of freshwater iron seeps and iron-rich wetlands. Its defining characteristic is copious production of extracellular sheaths encrusted with iron oxyhydroxides. Surprisingly, over 90% of these sheaths are empty, hence, what appears to be an abundant populatio...

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Main Authors: Emily J Fleming, Amy E Langdon, Manuel Martinez-Garcia, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Nicole J Poulton, E Dashiell P Masland, David Emerson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3060100?pdf=render

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