Most bacteria are just 2 micrometres long, but Thiomargarita magnifica is thousands of times bigger, and is unusually complex
at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California at the press briefing.
One end of each bacterium anchors to hard surfaces, such as sunken leaves, that lie among the sulphur-rich sediments on the mangrove floor, while the rest of the body stretches up into the water. How exactly it attaches is unclear. “They may somehow bridge the gap between these two chemical compartments, and they seem to be exploiting these chemical gradients to generate energy and fix carbon,” said Volland.cells with a dye and imaging the bacteria, the researchers also discovered that the cells store their DNA and protein-making machinery, or ribosomes, inside sacs made from cell membrane. This is a feature normally only seen in more complex eukaryotic cells such as those found in plants and animals.
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