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Text from a flashcard I wrote. Article already updated with info. maveric149

Bdellovibrio

1) Inoculum source, lifestyle

2) Enrichment strategy

3) Microscopic appearance

4) Gram reaction, catabolic pathway

5) Colony appearance

6) Other special properties


1) river water or soil, intraperiplasmic

2) NB/500 (nutrient broth 1:500 dil.), hot soft agar w/ E. coli, 30ªC/week

3) comma motile rods 0.3×1.5µ, flag.

4) -, obligate aerobic O2 respiration

5) as a growing plaque in E. coli lawn

6) attack gram - bacteria, enter into periplasmic space, host dies, becomes bdelloplast,invader elongates,divides



More Images

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It would be nice to show more images on the predator-effect of Bdellovibrio.

I have found a link here but I don't own the copyright to it so I can not link it into the article - it would be nice if someone else could find a kind soul to provide such images to Wikipedia. I find it a very interesting image of how Bdellovibrio attacks another bacteria:

http://i.imgur.com/joexlad.png

2A02:8388:1601:E000:BE5F:F4FF:FECD:7CB2 (talk) 16:11, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]


The sentence starting with "They have two lifestyles" is hardly readable. Not sure what the two styles are as there are so many enumerated items. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.10.108.210 (talk) 08:51, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]