Scientists Have Just Discovered a New Type of Electricity-Conducting Bacteria

New type One of the bacteria, like electrical wires, was recently discovered on a transient beach in Oregon. This type has been named Candids Electrushrix Yaqonnsis In honor of the Yakina tribe of the indigenous Americans who lived in the Bay of Yakina and around him, where the bacteria were found.

This type is a type of cable bacteria: microbes in the form of a rod connected to both ends to each other to create a chain that share an external membrane, and form long strands for several centimeters. Cable bacteria are found in fresh water deposits and fresh water, and unusually between bacteria, they are electrically connected. This is due to its own metabolism, where the electrons resulting from the oxidized sulfids are sent in their deeper layers to their surface layer, where they are received by oxygen and nitric acid.

25 species of cable bacteria are organized so far in Jenstan, Electrothrix CandidaThat lives in salty water, and Candida electronThat lives in fresh and milky water. The new types discovered in this study have genes and metabolic paths for both races, but it is believed to be a bridge for a previous branch of Electrothrix Candida The proportions, thus were classified as part of this sex.

Cheng Li, a post -PhD researcher at Oregon State University and co -author of the various environments, explained recently the species discovered new visions on how to develop cable bacteria and how they work in various environments, as Cheng Li, post -doctoral researcher at Oregon State University and co -author of the research, explained in a statement.

Electrical conductivity is high

Candids Electrushrix Yaqonnsis Distinguished from the cable bacteria in its appearance. Cable bacteria have external hills, which are widespread like mountains. The hills of new species are thick than those formerly known species, reaching an average thickness of about 228 nanometers, up to three thickens than before. The hills of the new species are arranged in a spiral similar pattern on the ritual surface, and its general shape is more angle than other species.

But the most surprising difference is that the threads of the new species are surrounded by a thick and transparent fatigue. According to the authors of the paper that determines this discovery, this is an unprecedented structure. This sheath does not make electricity and is believed to protect the ritual from the environment and foreign enemies.