TY - JOUR AU - Tabata, Kenji AU - Hida, Fuminori AU - Kiriyama, Tomoyuki AU - Ishizaki, Noriaki AU - Kamachi, Toshiaki AU - Okura, Ichiro PY - 2013 DA - 2013/03/11 TI - Measurement of soil bacterial colony temperatures and isolation of a high heat-producing bacterium JO - BMC Microbiology SP - 56 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - The cellular temperatures of microorganisms are considered to be the same as those of their surroundings because the cellular volume is too small to maintain a cellular temperature that is different from the ambient temperature. However, by forming a colony or a biofilm, microorganisms may be able to maintain a cellular temperature that is different from the ambient temperature. In this study, we measured the temperatures of bacterial colonies isolated from soils using an infrared imager and investigated the thermogenesis by a bacterium that increases its colony temperature. SN - 1471-2180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-13-56 DO - 10.1186/1471-2180-13-56 ID - Tabata2013 ER -