Enriched cells from salt marsh in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA - Chromatiaceae bacterium bf-1
salt marsh
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
This biosample consists of a highly enriched population of purple sulfur bacteria of the Chromatiaceae family.  Cells were enriched from a red mat found on the surface of sediment in a salt marsh from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.  Enrichment was performed by multiple rounds of adding biomass to sterile media, allowing cells to phototax from one side of the container to the other, and removing those cells that arrived at the edge the fastest.  One population was much faster than any other organism present in the population which allowed for enrichment to near homogeneity as determined by microscopy and 16s sequencing.
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA