<i>Hyphomicrobium sp.</i> (IMAGE)

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<i>Hyphomicrobium sp.</i>

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The electron micrograph shows bacteria (Hyphomicrobium sp.; Yellow) growing up partly on solid surfaces, floors and sediment grains. During growth whatsoever cells die and deformed or fragmenting cell envelopes remain. Small-scale fragments of these shells (red) then set the microparticulate matrix in soils and sediments.

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Photo: Burkhard Schmidt-Brücken, Institute of Material Science/Dresden University of Technology Colored by: Christian Schurig, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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