alt Hacker Newsempty in terms of normal cell components, apparently it stores relatively huge amounts of nitrates that are a necessary energy source for it
empty in terms of normal cell components, apparently it stores relatively huge amounts of nitrates that are a necessary energy source for it
Rather large gas tank:
Collected and stored sediment samples were found to have surviving T. namibiensis cells after over two years. The cells had no access to any added sulfide or nitrate during this time. In the surviving cells, there was a notable size decrease. To survive without growing the cells depended on the nutrient stores of the central vacuoles.