Sentence examples for smallest bacteria from inspiring English sources

The resolution in microscopy had been limited to 200 nanometres – about the size of the smallest bacteria – for several hundred years," said Stefanie Reichelt, head of light microscopy at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

Space constraints control the sizes of both the largest and smallest bacteria, they report this month in The ISME Journal.

Among the smallest bacteria are members of the genus Mycoplasma, which measure only 0.3 micrometres, as small as the largest viruses.

Chlamydia are gram negative obligate intracellular bacteria and among the smallest bacteria known [1], [2].

Mycoplasmas belong to the smallest bacteria, they do not contain a cell wall, and their bodies seem easily deformable.

Together with the components required to provide specific functions (Fig.  1), targeted nanoparticles reach a few hundred nanometres in size (the size of the smallest bacteria), intermediate between large proteins (e.g. antibodies with a hydrodynamic radius of approximately 15 nm) and microspheres (particles in the micrometre range, typically 10 to 200 µm).

Every organism on Earth, from the smallest bacterium to the blue whale, makes energy using the same biochemical pathway.

The peninsula's fragile marine ecology, from the smallest bacterium to the largest baleen whale, is being challenged.

Further up the creek, beds of ribbed mussels, which feed on smaller bacteria, will be added.

Dr Warren, 68, a pathologist at the Royal Perth hospital for more than 30 years, found that smaller bacteria existed in the lower part of the stomach in about 50% of patients from whom biopsies had been taken.

The discovery of the Mimivirus in 2003 by Didier Raoult and Jean-Michel Claverie made headlines because of the virus' remarkable size--comparable to that of many small bacteria.