Research Article
Unexpected Diversity of Magnetococci in Intertidal Sediments of Xiaoshi Island in the North Yellow Sea
Table 1
Magnetotactic cocci morphotypes present in the sampled sediments, based on TEM.
| | Size
diameter (µm) | Number of magnetite chains | Number of crystals per cell | Crystals mean sizes (nm) |
Number of magnetosomes | | Length (σ) | Width (σ) |
| | MC a | ~2 to 3 | 2 | ~19 | 140 (46) | 111 (38) | 57 | | MC b | ~1.5 to 3 | 2 | ~21 | 128 (35) | 107 (32) | 165 | | MC c | ~2 to 2.5 | 2 | ~23 | 115 (37) | 96 (34) | 91 | | MC d | ~1 to 2 | 2 | ~24 | 122 (28) | 107 (23) | 195 | | MC e | ~1 to 2 | 2 | ~22 | 112 (31) | 96 (26) | 169 | | MC f | ~1 | 2 | 15 | 118 (30) | 106 (24) | 15 | | MC g | ~2 | 1 | 9 | 130 (37) | 122 (33) | 9 | | MC h | ~1.5 to 2 | Irregular | ~22 | 82 (18) | 58 (12) | 136 | | MC i | ~1.5 | Irregular | 19 | 68 (13) | 51 (11) | 19 |
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Note: : standard deviation.
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