Micrograph of Rothia Cells (IMAGE)

Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Micrograph of Rothia Cells

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Micrograph showing Rothia cells (light blue) in their native habitat, a bacterial biofilm scraped from the human tongue.

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Photo credit: Jessica Mark Welch, Marine Biological Laboratory.

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