Question of the day: What is your favorite bacteria fact? I can tell you liked the last bacteria question!
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So, I’m not great with favorites, but one thing I find really fun is there’s actually a genus of bacteria called vampirococcus, like “vampire”, and it’s called this because it attaches to other microbes as prey and sucks the cytoplasm out of them like a vampire 😭
From “Predatory prokaryotes: Predation and primary consumption evolved in bacteria” by Ricardo Guerrero et. al, this picture and description:
“FIG. 3. Topological relations among predatory bacteria. (Top) Vampirococcus attaches to the cell wall of several species of Chromatium and divides epibiotically while degrading the host cytoplasm. […] (Drawings by Christie Lyons.)”