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If you have any bacteria here that belong to the genus we call Leptothrix, one of them should be an iron-fixing species.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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If you have any bacteria here that belong to the genus we call Leptothrix, one of them should be an iron-fixing species.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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On Earth, because we have iron in abundance, our Leptothrix ochracea has found plenty of opportunity to grow.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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On Earth, because we have iron in abundance, our Leptothrix ochracea has found plenty of opportunity to grow.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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Chalybeate waters, pools in marshes near ironstone, &c, abound in bacteria, some of which belong to the remarkable genera _Crenothrix_, _Cladothrix_ and _Leptothrix_, and contain ferric oxide, _i. e._ rust, in their cell-walls.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Leptothrix is a term that in the past has been loosely used to signify a long thread, but is now restricted to such forms as belong to the leptothriciæ (_vide infra_).
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In water, highly impregnated with oxide of iron, at 4000 feet in Sikkim, a _Leptothrix_ occurred in great abundance, coloured with the oxide, exactly as is the case with
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In the springs themselves and on their banks, at temperatures varying from 80 degrees to 158 degrees, at which point vegetation entirely ceases, a minute _Leptothrix_ abounds everywhere, varying a little in the regularity of the threads in different specimens, but scarcely presenting two species.
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(since named _Beggiatoa roseo-persicina_, Zopf) passes through conditions which would have been described by most observers influenced by the current doctrine as so many separate "species" or even "genera," -- that in fact forms known as _Bacterium_, _Micrococcus_, _Bacillus_, _Leptothrix_, &c., occur as phases in one life-history.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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_ _Leptothrix_) and such as exhibit a false branching (_e. g.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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