Talk:Bdellovibrio

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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