An artistically colored electron-microscopic image of a Porphyromonas gingivalis cell.
Most bacterial cells are covered in tiny, hair-like structures called pili. Their diameter is smaller than 1/10,000th of a human hair.
Date:
30 March 2020
Credit:
S. Shibata, OIST
Copyright OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 沖縄科学技術大学院大学). Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
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