| association of a new type of gliding, filamentous, purple phototrophic bacterium inside bundles of microcoleus chthonoplastes in hypersaline cyanobacterial mats. | an unidentified filamentous purple bacterium, probably belonging to a new genus or even a new family, is found in close association with the filamentous, mat-forming cyanobacterium microcoleus chthonoplastes in a hypersaline pond at guerrero negro, baja california sur, mexico, and in solar lake, sinai, egypt. this organism is a gliding, segmented trichome, 0.8-0.9 micrometer wide. it contains intracytoplasmic stacked lamellae which are perpendicular and obliquely oriented to the cell wall, sim ... | 1987 | 11542090 |