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Solid, white filaments resulting from metabolized hydrogen sulfide.

Solid, white filaments resulting from metabolized hydrogen sulfide.
Solid, white filaments resulting from metabolized hydrogen sulfide.
Solid, white filaments resulting from metabolized hydrogen sulfide.
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Taylor, Craig and Wirsen, Carl
Solid, white filaments resulting from metabolized hydrogen sulfide.
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01/01/1992
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 42, No. 2, Pg. 73:
Examining the white flocs discharged from the 1991 seafloor eruption, WHOI scientists discovered a new genus of bacteria called Arcobacter. It lives in low-oxygen conditions and metabolizes hydrogen sulfide to obtain energy. An end-product of this metabolism is a unique form of sulfur, which the bacteria excrete in the form of solid, white filaments.
Courtesy of Craig Taylor & Carl Wirsen, WHOI
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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