Talk:Thiomargarita namibiensis

The second paragraph of this article appears to have been taken directly from http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc99/4_17_99/fob5.htm 63.225.175.108 21:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It sure has. I reworded it and added some more detail. Aleanto 03:01, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

pic needed
needs a pic —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.205.92.132 (talk) 17:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC).

Some nice pictures can be found on Microbe Wiki: http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Thiomargarita I don't know how to incorporate them, so I'll leave that to someone else -Brad

organism
A bacterium's not an organism... someone should fix that.
 * Yes it is. Pseudomonas(talk) 08:33, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism, a brief read of the first few lines of this page should clear up your confusion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.183.34 (talk) 10:01, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

The page on Wikipedia says that it was discovered in 1997, but the link at the bottom of the page to the picture says it was discovered in 1999.

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Applications?
This is cool, but...Will they explode if ground, dried and ignited? After all, they store a bunch of pure sulphur and nitrate, the essential non-ubiquitous ingredients of gunpowder. In this article, the bacteria are reported to have been nicknamed "gunpowder bacteria" by a named researcher. Maybe dragons cultivate similar bacteria in their gastrointestinal tracts to produce fuel for their breath... :-) Jokes aside, there could be room for discussion of some biotech applications. See https://iwaponline.com/wst/article-abstract/44/8/57/6810/The-biological-sulfur-cycle-novel-opportunities . Elias (talk) 11:05, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

No longer largest bacterium (by far!)
This seems no longer to be the largest bacterium discovered. Maybe reword that introductory sentence to provide the date it was true? The tentatively named Thiomargarita magnifica seems rather larger, at two centimeters!. See for example science.org: " Its threadlike single cell is visible to the naked eye, growing up to 2 centimeters..." Captain Puget (talk) 21:36, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: MIBO 3500 Introduction to Microbiology
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Bacteria do more than simple diffusion
The significance tab implies bacteria only obtain nutrients via simple diffusion, which wouldn't be possible to uptake anything more chemically complex than oxygen or water. Bacteria also obtain nutrients via active transport, facilitated transport, group translocation, etc as just broad categories of uptake. A lot of nutrients have multi-step, complicated uptake processes. Bacteria wouldn't be able to get a lot of their essential nutrients without these mechanisms

Writtenwall (talk) 13:56, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Occurence Section
The Mexican strain was discovered in 2002, not 2005 as stated. Jlynn03 (talk) 01:30, 11 November 2023 (UTC)https://ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00832.x?saml referrer

Large Deletions
Hi @Graham Beards, we appreciate all of the help with the article. Though I understand why you deleted some of the recently added genome section, could you leave an explanation on the talk page as of the point of the deletion? The large deletions with little explanation for why it was deleted are not extremely helpful to the readers and writers of the page. I included information on T. magnifica because they are in the same genus and likely have similar genomic structures, so it can give a little clue to the reader about very related organisms. Let me know what you think. Thank you Eleoni2002 (talk) 18:55, 17 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, the only substantial deletion I made was this one and I gave a clear reason in my edit summary, which read "Sorry this is as different species". Your adding information on  T. magnifica "because they are in the same genus" is original research which contravenes our policies. You were made aware of this policy here . Graham Beards (talk) 19:05, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: MIBO 3500 Introduction to Microbiology
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Need to add neutralophile(thrives at neutral pH) and psychrophile (survives at low temperatures)