In article <3ohb3h$13b7 at news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> , phodgin at ibm.net writes:
>A few years ago there was a story of a surgeon fish caught off Australia
>that had a 1 inch long bacteria in its stomach.
>Does anyone know where I can get more information on this?
They were not quite 1 inch long; the biggest ones were >0.6 mm.
The primary reference is:
Angert, E.R., Clements, K.D., & Pace, N.R. (1993) The largest bacterium.
Nature 362, 239-241.
Also see:
Ahern, H. (1993) A big bacterium---oxymoron of the microbial word. ASM
News 59, 519-521.
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