filamentous
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Finally, as acid slowly evaporates and sugars are used up, other species—including filamentous fungi and spore-forming Bacillus bacteria – take over.
From Scientific American
Finally, as acid slowly evaporates and sugars are used up, other species – including filamentous fungi and spore-forming Bacillus bacteria – take over.
From Salon
Some P. aeruginosa have integrated what are called filamentous phages into their genomes.
From Scientific American
Located some 70,000 light-years away, the bundle of stars has been shredded and stretched into a filamentous stream by the gravity of the Milky Way.
From Science Magazine
The biggest filaments were about 12 feet long — “quite a lot larger than anything we were expecting,” Dr. Liu said, and dwarfing any of the filamentous bacteria and algae that lived alongside the rangeomorphs.
From New York Times
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