# \#thiomargarita-magnifica

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## [Two Centimetre Long Single-Cell Bacterium](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/two-centimetre-long-single-cell-bacterium/1119)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [30 March 2022 12:15 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/two-centimetre-long-single-cell-bacterium/1119 "2022-03-30T12:15:27Z")

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Here is more about Thiomargarita magnifica, a sulfur-metabolising bacterium which is visible to the naked eye. Its genome is enormous as well, with 11 million bases and 11,000 genes, containing more than h…