Beggiatoa are chemolithotrophic sulfur-oxidizers, using reduced sulfur species as an energy source. They live in sulfur-rich environments such as soil, both marine and freshwater, in the deep sea hydrothermal vents, and in polluted marine environments.

Beggiatoa is one of the few motile filaments found in wastewater plants. This sulfide reducing filamentous bacteria uptakes sulfur and stores it as granules. When observing Beggiatoa under phase contrast, the sulfur granules are clearly visible. This filament moves in …

Beggiatoa stores “elemental” sulfur inside the cell, which gives the filaments a white appearance. Massive blooms of this organism in sulfidic hot springs, salt marshes, and marine sediments make this gliding organism conspicuous (Larkin and Strohl, 1983) when it forms veils or mats.

"Beggiatoa" is one of the first bacteria discovered by Sergie Winogradsky the father of modern geomicrobiology. Beggiatoa is a genus of colorless, filamentous proteobacteria. With cells up …

Beggiatoa is a colorless, sulfur-storing bacterium belonging to the Gammaproteobacteria, filamentous, motile, and not attached. Bacteria of the genus Beggiatoa live by the oxidation of sulfide with oxygen or nitrate.

Beggiatoa spp. are multicellular, filamentous colorless bacteria. Since their discovery by Vaucher in 1803, they are considered among the largest sulphur-oxidizing bacteria in nature [1]. Members of this genus are widespread in marine and freshwater environments.

Beggiatoa and Thioploca are effective mat-forming microorganisms; their mats may be less than a millimeter thin (Nelson et al., 1986a) or several centimeters thick (Jannasch et al., 1989b), depending on the dynamics and stability of the sulfide/oxidant interface.

2007年6月28日 · Beggiatoa are multicellular, filamentous, colorless sulfur bacteria of the γ -proteobacteria clade, inhabiting freshwater, marine and hypersaline sediments and forming distinct white...

The genus Beggiatoa is currently represented by a single defined species Beggiatoa alba (Strohl, 1989). However, this species designation is commonly used for any colorless, filamentous, gliding bacterium that deposits internal globules of elemental sulfur but does...

Beggiatoa es un género de Gammaproteobacteria perteneciente al orden Thiotrichales, en el filo Pseudomonadota. Estas bacterias forman filamentos incoloros compuestos de células que pueden tener hasta 200 μm de diámetro, y son uno de los procariotas más grandes de la Tierra.