NOUN
- bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste
How To Use myxobacter In A Sentence
- During developmental aggregation and predatory lifestyle , gliding motility is very important for myxobacteria.
- Epothilones, macrocyclic lactones from culture filtrates of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum, are known as taxol-like microtubular drugs in human medicine.
- Myxobacteria provide an excellent system for studying prokaryotic development because they can initiate multicellular morphogenesis.