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Giant bacterium contains genomes for an entire population

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Giant bacterium contains genomes for an entire population
Achromatium oxaliferum is the largest (known) freshwater bacterium in the world. It is 30,000 times larger than its “normal” counterparts that live in water and owing to its calcite deposits it is visible to the naked eye. It has long been known – at least among bacteria fans – that some sulfur bacteria such as Achromatium can be extremely large and may contain several genome copies. But the fact that a single bacterial cell harbors hundreds of different genomes is new – also to bacteria aficionados.
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