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Also when the beavers show up into your pond at about the 2:00 mark of this video, I'm thinking that this could be really interesting to see the changes in your sampling from there as their work alters that ecosystem :-)
this channel is the first thing i look for when i have trouble sleeping. beautiful images of microorganisms and a calming voice, can even educate you! there really is nothing more to ask for. thank you.
"They are small, but the impact they are able to have on the world around them is huge." Like Depeche Mode told us, everything counts in large amounts!
Is there a RU-vid feature where I could automatically like any newly uploaded videos, even prior to me having the time watch them? You are one RU-vidr that I can watch all day long!
To see even simple prokaryotes capable of benefiting from teamwork like this puts the organizing powers of the comparatively huge and advanced eukaryotic cells in a different light.
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I wonder if the bacterias movement may have something to do with their spinning, its very subtle but it seems like as they move they rotate and maybe that helps them go forward. Simply an idea and its likely been thought of before but thank you for the video, I enjoy them as they calm me and put my over active mind to sleep.
Whatever it is we're all part of seems so impossibly vast, sophisticated and intelligent beyond our wildest imagination... but at the same time I have this subtle, far-away sense of it all being so extraordinary simple, like you can see all this complexity at once. Whatever the case, it's fun to be part of the ride. However painful it can feel at times.
Yes! I work with cyanobacteria and that is one of the amazing things about them. When the form filaments each cell retains its own cell wall and membrane, but they all are enveloped by the glycolipid layer they produce. Some species will also have some cells differentiate into what is called a heterocyst.
Just want to say that "Slime Tubes in Search of Sunlight" sounds like an album title. Though the channel is focused on microbiology, I cannot help but admire the poetic touch you guys inject into your work.
i might just be a noob but, especially in water the slime creates a friction with the water, so that friction automatically pushes the cyano left or right, up or down, so if the slime is equal on all sides it pushes the cyano forward, so it doesn't cost any energy, or atleast very little energy to move. atleast thats my idea.
Looks like most of the cyanobacteria also roll along their long axis, like a rotisserie, as if to maximize light exposure? Or could it just be a consequence of how they move?
Do we know if the movement is pushed by a cell or cells at the end of a stand of these cyanobacteria (possibly specialized in some way), like a locomotive pushing or pulling a train of non motive cars? Or do each of the individual cells in the strand contribute to the movement?
I still don't understand how they move. So you said they glide over slime, which is fair enough, but how do they glide one way or the other, there must be something causing them to glide over the slime, the slime itself doesn't seem to actually provide a method of locomotion, it's just a material that allows them to glide... am I missing something here?
He just said that no one knows exactly how they move. There are even microbes with rigid bodies made from glass and they move gliding having no apparent moving parts outside their glass shells
Have you guys done a video on the spiral pasta type organisms often in the background of the sliders featured in this video? Thanks for the channel, love the content!
How much you want to bet that the direction that those cyanobacteria use has something to do with the magnetic polarities of the poles on our planet. Could be interesting?
Top left is the level of magnification James used. Bottom right is a scale, usually microns or nanometers, because we don't all watch on the same sized screen.
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