TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTICS FOR SPEED OF MOVEMENT OF THIOBACTERIA |
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| Authors: | W. J. Crozier T. J. B. Stier |
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| Affiliation: | From the Laboratory of General Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge. |
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| Abstract: | The speed of translatory movement of Beggiatoa alba is governed by temperature in such a way that between 5° and 33° the temperature characteristics µ = 16,100 and µ = 8,400 respectively obtain for the temperature ranges 5° to 16.5° and 16.5° to 33°. The "break" at 16°–17° is emphasized by the occurrence of a wider latitude of variation in speed above this temperature. Above 16° the progression of Thiothrix yields µ = 8,300. The possible relation of these values to that previously obtained for similar movement in (photosynthetic) Oscillatoria is commented upon. |
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