green sulfur bacteria

American  

plural noun

1. a group of green or brown bacteria of the families Chlorobiaceae and Chloroflexaceae that occur in aquatic sediments, sulfur springs, and hot springs and that utilize reduced sulfur compounds instead of oxygen.

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Example Sentences

In that experiment Coles and company sequestered several hundred photosynthetic green sulfur bacteria between two mirrors, progressively shrinking the gap between the mirrors down to a few hundred nanometers—less than the width of a human hair.

From Scientific American

And it hints at another potential instance of naturally emerging quantum biology: Green sulfur bacteria reside in the deep ocean where the scarcity of life-giving light might even spur quantum-mechanical evolutionary adaptations to boost photosynthesis.

From Scientific American

The linear behaviour at low temperatures saturates at higher temperatures, indicative of a convergent coherence number, with Ncoh < N. c, Illustration of the chlorosome light harvesting complex and associated proteins that transport excitation energy to the reaction centre in green sulfur bacteria.

From Nature

The linear behaviour at low temperatures saturates at higher temperatures, indicative of a convergent coherence number, with Ncoh < N. c, Illustration of the chlorosome light harvesting complex and associated proteins that transport excitation energy to the reaction centre in green sulfur bacteria.

From Nature

In the column that had egg yolk you may have seen areas of darker green, purple, and/or black coloring develop over time near the bottom—these colorings could be groups of certain anaerobic bacteria: green sulfur bacteria, purple sulfur bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria, respectively.

From Scientific American