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December 8, 2004

This FISH image of the biofilm - shows Leptospirillum, archae, and Sulfobacillus.

This FISH image of the biofilm - showing Leptospirillum in yellow, archae in blue, and Sulfobacillus in green - is surrounded by a representation of a genome sequence that indicates genes by colored bars.

Credit: Gene Tyson and Jill Banfield, UC Berkeley


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