Gemmata obscuriglobus

Gemmata obscuriglobus
Electron micrographs of representative examples illustrating G. obscuriglobus internal morphology. Scale bar = 500nm.
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Gemmata

Franzmann and Skerman 1985
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G. obscuriglobus
Binomial name
Gemmata obscuriglobus
Franzmann and Skerman 1985

Gemmata obscuriglobus is a species of Gram-negative, aerobic, heterotrophic bacteria of the phylum Planctomycetota. G. obscuriglobus occur in freshwater habitats and was first described in 1984, and is the only described species in its genus.

G. obscuriglobus is exceptional for its unusual morphology and for the unusual features in its genome, often considered to represent large differences in internal organization compared with most prokaryotes