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Special Adaptations
- 2 types of locomotion
1. Type IV Pilli (used as a hook)
2. Mucus Secretion (helps it move in a 'gliding' fashion)
39 seconds 12 seconds
More Cool Stuff
Now is being researched to make a
medicine called Taxol that can target
breast-cancer cells
Genome is 9.14 Mb (not mega-bytes but
Mega base which is 1,000,000 base-pairs)
Mass of 100,000
Myxococcus Xanthus
cells with their visable
spores
Hyperlinks
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=coolest+bacteria&rlz=1R2ADSA_enUS349&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&o
q=
http://rlv.zcache.com/support_bacteria_funny_mens_t_shirt-p235401265518966672qdvq_400.jpg
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Myxococcus_xanthus
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/devbio/kaiserlab/about_myxo/about_myxococcus.html
http://www.devbio.uga.edu/gallery/2.html
http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Myxococcus