Fmicb-07-01740-g002

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Summary[edit] Description: English: Transmission electron micrographs of high-pressure frozen, freeze-substituted, resin-embedded, and thin-sectioned Methylomirabilis cells taken from a bioreactor enrichment culture. (A,B) Infected Methylomirabilis cells (white arrow in A) are in clusters among non-infected cells (black arrows in A). The bacteriophage (white arrow in B) has a hexagonal shape and an internal electron dense core. (C,D) The bacteriophages are organized in a highly packed formation (white arrow in D). The replication and assembly of bacteriophages causes the Methylomirabilis cell to swell and eventually the cell wall breaks (black arrows in D). (E,F) Lysed Methylomirabilis cell releasing the viral progeny. (B,D,F) are enlargements of (A,C,E), respectively. Scale bars; 200 nm. Date: 8 November 2016. Source: Fig. 2 at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01740/full Ultrastructure and Viral Metagenome of Bacteriophages from an Anaerobic Methane Oxidizing Methylomirabilis Bioreactor Enrichment Culture. In: Frontiers in Microbiology, volume 7 (2016), p1740, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01740, ISSN 1664-302X . Author: Lavinia Gambelli, Geert Cremers, Rob Mesman, Simon Guerrero, Bas E. Dutilh, Mike S. M. Jetten, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Laura van Niftrik. Other versions: .