cell width

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For the sentence: "Cells are obligatory anaerobic, Gram-reaction-positive, non-motile cocci, ~0.8−1.0 µm, occurring in pairs and chains of 3–10 cells"

MicroPIE is extracting "−1.0 µm," for the cell width. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.8−1.0 µm" for the cell width.

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For the sentence: "Cells are motile, straight rods (1–4 µm × 0.5–0.8 µm in size) with rounded or occasionally tapered ends. "

MicroPIE is extracting "13-15 nm|5.36-5.75" for the cell width. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.5–0.8 µm" for the cell width.

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For the description: "Cells are motile by means of peritrichous flagella and occur singly or in pairs. Cells are 0.6 to 0.9 by 2 to 8 µm and have rounded or occasionally pointed ends; swelling toward the end of the cell is common. Filaments up to 20 µm long may occur. Colonies on blood agar are small, circular, low convex, grayish, and smooth. Glucose broth cultures are moderately turbid with a smooth sediment. Major metabolic end products in peptone-yeast extract-glucose broth are acetate, butyrate, and isovalerate; small amounts of propionate, isobutyrate, and other acids are produced. The optimum temperature for growth is 37°C. An NADP-dependent 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase is produced. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, glutamate dehydrogenase, and malate dehydrogenase are absent. Urease and indole are not produced. Nitrate reduction, hippurate hydrolysis, and gelatin liquefaction are variable. Esculin is not hydrolyzed. HZS is produced in SIM (Difco) broth. The cell wall peptidoglycan contains meso-diaminopimelic acid (4); no heptose or 2-keto-3-deoxyoctulosonic acid was detected in the wall (5). Nonhydroxylated and 3-hydroxylated long-chain fatty acids are produced. The fatty acids are primarily of the straight-chain saturated and isomethyl branched-chain types, with 13-methyltetradecanoic (iso-C15:0) acid predominating. Menaquinones are not produced. The mol% G+C content of DNA from the type strain is 28 (2). Isolated from infant and adult feces, gangrenous lesions, lung abscesses, and blood. Type strain: ATCC 25539 (NCTC 11158). Description of the type strain. The description of the type strain corresponds to that of the species except that gelatin is hydrolyzed and nitrate is reduced. "

MicroPIE is extracting nothing for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting ".24-3.56" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "2 to 8 µm|20 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.6 to 0.9 µm " for the cell width.

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For the sentences: "Cells are Gram-type (Wiegel 1981) and Gram-staining positive, straight to slightly curved rods with 0.7– 0.8 µm x 5.5–12 µm in dimension. Terminally located spherical spores (1.2–1.6 µm in diameter) cause swelling of the mother cells. Cells are motile with 2–5 peritrichous flagella."

MicroPIE is extracting nothing for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "2-5|µm#15|µm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "5.5–12 µm " for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.7– 0.8 µm " for the cell width.

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For the sentence:" Cells are rod-shaped, 0.3–0.8 µm in diameter and 1.2 (exponential growth phase) to 35 µm (stationary growth phase) in length"

MicroPIE is extracting "nothing" for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "35|µm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting " 1.2 to 35 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting " 0.3–0.8 µm " for the cell width.

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For the sentences: "Nonsporing, gram-negative, slightly helical rods, 0.5 to 1.0 by 2.0 to 7.0 µm with slightly tapered rounded ends. Most cells occur singly or in pairs with helical chains of three or more often observed. Multiplication by binary fission. Cells possess two to eight flagella with a diameter of about 20 nm that are laterally inserted in a linear fashion on the concave side of the cell about 130 nm or more apart"

MicroPIE is extracting "130|nm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "0.5 to 1.0 µm " for the cell width.

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For the sentence: "The cells are curved rods, 0-5 µm in diameter and 2-10 µm long. Longer cells can be spirals of up to 3 or 4 turns with an amplitude of 1.5-2.0 µm and a wavelength of 3 4 µm".

MicroPIE is extracting "2-10|µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "1.5-2.0|µm#34|µm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "2-10 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "0-5 µm" for the cell width. [note that there is an uncorrected pdf-to-text errors in the original sentence, just ignore that. The corrected sentence should be: "The cells are curved rods, 0.5 µm in diameter and 2-10 µm long. Longer cells can be spirals of up to 3 or 4 turns with an amplitude of 1.5-2.0 µm and a wavelength of 3.4 µm."]

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For the sentences: "cells exhibit highly variable, coccoid or droplet shapes. Cells stain Gram-negative and are non-motile and non-spore-forming. Colonies on BUA+B agar acquire a size of approximately 1mm in diameter after 4–5 days incubation at 37˚C, and are grayish-white in appearance, circular and concave. Cells range in size between 0.6 and 2.5 µm, and exhibit variable forms (from circular, ellipsoid to droplike shapes). "

MicroPIE is extracting "4-5" for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "0.6-2.5|µm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "0.6-2.5 µm" for the cell width.

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For the sentences: "Straight, mostly nonmotile, spore-forming rods, occurring singly or in pairs, with a varying length depending on the type of substrate, minimal 1.6 µm and maximal up to 8 µm. Motility depends on substrate used. On protein containing media, the cells are nonmotile. On proteinous media 10–20 % of cells are motile. On difficultly accessible substrates like biomass of other bacteria the cells elongate into filaments of varied length. Cell width is about 0.5 µm, in case of thread-like forms about 0.2 µm. "

MicroPIE is extracting "" for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "1.6-8 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.2-0.5 µm" for the cell width. [or "0.2 µm|0.5 µm"]

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For the sentences: "After 24h growth on 5% sheep blood-enriched Columbia agar (BioMerieux) at 30°C, bacterial colonies were light beige, circular, slightly elevated and from 1 mm to 2 mm in diameter. Cells have a length ranging from 2.1 μm to 3.2 μm (mean 2.6 μm) and a diameter ranging from 0.4 μm to μm 0.6 (mean 0.5 μm). "

MicroPIE is extracting nothing for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "2.1-3.2|µm#2.6|µm#0.5|µm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "2.1 μm to 3.2 μm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.4 μm to μm 0.6" for the cell width.

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For the sentence: "Cells are Gram-positive, strictly aerobic, motile, endospore-forming, and rod-shaped (1.5–2.5 × 1.0–1.2 µm) when grown on R2A agar at 30°C for 2 days. "

MicroPIE is extracting "1.5-2.5|µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "2" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "1.0–1.2 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "1.5–2.5 µm" for the cell width.

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For the sentence: "Cells are rod-shaped, 0.7–1.2 µm wide and 5.4–6.2 µm long after incubation at 28 ˚C on NA for 2 days, Gramstain-positive, catalase-positive, oxidase-negative, facultatively anaerobic and motile. Subterminal ellipsoidal spores are formed in swellings of the sporangium. "

MicroPIE is extracting "5.4-6.2|µm#28" for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "2" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "5.4–6.2 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.7–1.2 µm" for the cell width.

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For the sentence: "Rod-shaped cells with a length of approx. 1.0–3.0 µm and a width of 0.6–1.0 µm. "

MicroPIE is extracting nothing for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting 1.0-3.0|µm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "1.0–3.0 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.6–1.0 µm" for the cell width.

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For the sentence: "Cells are rod-shaped (0.5-1.2x4.5-6.5 µm) and motile by means of peritrichous flagella. Ellipsoidal spores are formed in swollen sporangia. "

MicroPIE is extracting nothing for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting ".5|µm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "4.5-6.5 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.5-1.2 µm" for the cell width.

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For the sentence: "Gram-positive, facultative anaerobic, non-motile rod, 0.5‒1.0 × 2.5‒3.0 μm after growing on R2A agar (Difco) at 30°C for 2 days. "

MicroPIE is extracting nothing for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "0.51.0×2.53.0|µm#2" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "2.5‒3.0 μm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "0.5‒1.0 μm" for the cell width.

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For the sentences: "Gram-negative rod-shaped cells, frequently slightly bent, ca. 1 µm wide and of variable length (7-10 µm or longer). On complex medium agar, colonies have irregular margins due to wavy protrusions of cell masses in palisade formations, typical of gliding bacteria. Obligately phototrophic; strictly anaerobic. Grows photoheterotrophically over a temperature range of 20- 41˚C (optimum at 35-37 ˚C); biotin required. As cultures age, cells show a pronounced tendency to spheroplast and lyse. Nitrogen sources: N2 or ammonium salts. Photosynthetic pigments: bacteriochlorophyll gag is the major pigment (in vivo, the main absorbancy peak is at 788 rim; relatively small peaks are also observed at 575 and 670 nm). Chlorosomes absent. In addition to bacteriochlorophyll gGg, cells contain a low concentration of a neurosporene-like carotenoid. Young cultures are brownish-green, and later become emerald-green in coloration. DNA G + C content: 52 mol % Source: surface soil collected in front of Jordan Hall of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Type strain: Gest/Favinger. The strain has been deposited in the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) as number 35205. "

MicroPIE is extracting "575-670 nm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "1 µm" for the cell width.

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For the sentences: "Straight or slightly curved rods, 1.0-1.5 µm by 3.5-9.0 µm, with pointed ends. Motile by means of single, polar flagella; flagellum twice as thick (27 nm) as usual flagella. Spores spherical, 1.5 µm in diameter, subterminal, causing swelling of the cells. "

MicroPIE is extracting "3.5-9.0 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE is extracting "27 nm" for the cell width.

MicroPIE should be extracting "3.5-9.0 µm" for the cell length. MicroPIE should be extracting "1.0-1.5 µm " for the cell width.