Morphological diversity of Struvite crystals produced by Myxococcus Coralloides and Myxococcus Xanthus

Abstract We studied the morphological diversity of struvite crystals produced by Myxococcus coralloides and Myxococcus xanthus in different culture conditions. We discussed the similarities of these crystals with the struvite morphology studied previously following the theory of the periodic bond chains.

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