bacterial filament

Within flint-like rock at these sites they have found what resemble bacterial filaments.

Mature cells of the nodule are filled with bacterial filaments that actively fix nitrogen.

The bacterial filament can be seen as a multicellular organism with two distinct yet interdependent cell types.

These chromosomes lead to the unsuccessful division of elongated cells, and the formation of bacterial filament.

The bacterial filament ultrastructure is consistent with inhibition of FtsZ polymerization (previously described).

They were previously named Candidatus Arthromitus because of their morphological resemblance to bacterial filaments previously observed in the guts of insects by Joseph Leidy.

The means of reducing the metals is of particular controversy, as current research using Scanning Electron Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy has revealed abnormal structural protrusions resembling bacterial filaments that are thought to be involved in the metal reduction.

Bacterial flagella are thicker than archaella [Singular Archaellum], and the bacterial filament has a large enough hollow "tube" inside that the flagellin subunits can flow up the inside of the filament and get added at the tip; the archaellum is too thin (12-15 nm) to allow this.