Nature Atlas

How Nature Works
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Taxa

Spirochaetia

Class

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

Spirochaetia is a class of bacteria within the phylum Spirochaetota, whose members, commonly called spirochaetes or spirochetes, are distinctive diderm (double membrane) Gram-negative bacteria with long, helically coiled cells. Spirochaetes are chemoheterotrophic, ranging from about 3 to 500 micrometers in length and roughly 0.09 to at least 3 micrometers in diameter.

Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.