Bacteria inside the Mussel (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Bacteria inside the Mussel

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This is a colored image from a transmission electron microscope; Bathymodiolus tissue in green; cells of Ca. Thiobarba living outside the host cells in yellow. The typical endosymbiont of Bathymodiolus mussels is colored light blue.

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology / Nikolaus Leisch

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