The Incredible World of Bacterial Communities

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These particular little green organisms show up in the background of other organism’s lives, providing pops of color among other debris. What you are looking at is not a single organism, but rather a gathering of them. Those green bits are consortia of bacteria.
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[@Yezpahr]

9:07 "Life does not draw hard lines around it, it simply does what works" This is the number 1 lesson of the channel and it never stops amazing/amusing me. Does any virus participate in this practice of consortia, or do some of them have a distinctly different conglomerating action?

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

You could say Life, uhh, finds a way... 😅

[@alseb931]

“The closer you look, the more you realize, life does not let us draw hard lines around anything. It simply does what works.”

[@Dowlphin]

Viruses typically attach to human corporate structures. Or vice versa. 😏

[@amentrison2794]

So, this is not exactly the same as what you were asking about and I'm not sure if any other phenomenon exist that are more similar, but Kurzgesagt made a video on giant viruses that talks for a little bit about virus that hijack the processes of other viruses. It's called, "This Virus Shouldn't Exist (But it Does)".

[@bryanhumphreys940]

I did work study at a microbiology lab in college, we had visiting scientists present all the time and I'll never forget when a scientist presented their paper on biofilms and how some bacteria 'sacrifice' themselves to help create the matrix for the biofilm. Under a microscope it almost looked like a cement apartment block made of fellow dead bacteria that transformed themselves into 'scaffolding.' When they showed the slide of the bacteria and the matrix there were audible gasps in the room.

[@exploremicroscopy]

Damn. Nice job. A degree in microbiology and I've never heard of this. Very nice microscopy, too. Thanks James!

[@Cinderpelt1002]

Consortiums and biofilms seem to be somewhat analogous to multicellularity- at least in its simplest forms.

[@kylerosenberg2508]

I'm writing a book on this, so this has absolutely made my day! Thank you for making this amazing content!!!

[@kylerosenberg2508]

Thats awesome, but just to be clear, I wasn't trying to show off. I'm just excited about the progress I've made and stuff like this really reminds me of why I fell in love with environmental microbiology in the first place.

[@kylerosenberg2508]

Sorry, it's a bit hard to read a comment as genuine or sarcastic through text alone.

[@JamsGerms]

Wow! Please let me know the name when it's out! -James

[@kylerosenberg2508]

@@JamsGerms Of course!

[@SpectrumOfChange]

​@@kylerosenberg2508humble is cool too but also it's okay to flex sometimes as well and own that 🤘🏼😎

[@katyab3980]

the top right fella(s) at 1:48 is going MENTAL

[@leekspinner]

Somehow, your videos combine both the quirky approach of modern videos and the calming yet whimsical narration of old documentaries. Great job!

[@kellyngo150]

The way they are spinning out of control is so hilarious to me

[@TheRogueWolf]

I always imagine them just going "WHEEEEE!" continuously.

[@TheRogueWolf]

"When you say it like that, 'The Consortium' sounds almost like a dystopian entity...." _Bacteriapunk 20.77µm?_

[@davesextraneousinformation9807]

These guys remind me of animals like the Portuguese Man 'o War, a hydrozoan, that consists of four individual animals merged into one codependent unit.

[@maiabones]

sometimes things around me make me fall in love with the universe again. this video is now one of those things. what a beautiful place it is to be here 😊

[@terrynewberg5732]

Wonderful words and views ❤

[@MrEiht]

Thanks for "Stick together, come on, come on and stick together You know we made a vow, to leave one another never" roaming in my head...

[@rayrerej9630]

I love these videos so much. I really hope you're taking care of yourself, Hank.

[@philipmurphy2]

That was such a great video, Thanks.

[@heavymetalbassist5]

Hi Hank!! Thanks for always giving me new knowledge

[@wemcal]

Great video and wonderful information

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Whenever there's a video with Hank telling me what's on the screen, peering into the microcosmos, I'm suddenly happier. 😊 ❤❤

[@Dominis.]

Please never stop making videos on this channel

[@zainmudassir2964]

True example of power of friendship

[@tinfoilhatscholar]

Symbiosis/Symbiogenesis--->Lynn Margulis!!! Give credit where credit is do. Lynn was the master who brought us all this awesome info back in the eighties. Her theory on symbiosis, said that it, rather than random mutations is the primary driver of genetic evolution.

[@artmakersworlds]

WOW this show is so cool. Always fascinating.

[@alanthefisher]

If only countries/people could learn to work together as well as bacteria can haha

[@zainmudassir2964]

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[@I1-temporary-bliss-state]

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[@avenuestx2211]

Hank dude your awesome lol it's amazing how you're everywhere there's science

[@user-fr7lk8mh6w]

Thank you so much

[@sniall]

"When he tried separating the individuals" HOW??? What tool could possibly be tiny enough to pick apart bacteria!?

[@Vistico93]

I wonder if a prokaryote like that symbiobacter was originally a protonucleus for what would become the first eukaryotic cells? A consortium core that lost so many of its genes that it could no longer function on its own or a consortium body that simply found it easier to share a membrane instead of maintaining dozens of separate ones...

[@Beryllahawk]

so... the green sulphur bacteria kinda domesticated the other prokaryote? Or well, certainly changed it to their own benefit. It's not quite parasitism but also not quite the sort of mutualism that we tend to think of first. How interesting!! I feel like this might point to one of the baby-steps of evolution that progressed eventually to multicellular creatures. I remember when you talked about mitochondria, and how there's that hypothesis that the mitochondria used to be an independent creature, though I can't recall just now if you said it was a single celled one or not. Regardless, it certainly seems reasonable that perhaps this sort of gathering of "like minded beings" came first. And because evolution is the way it is (random and going with whatever lives long enough) - perhaps these consortia survived a set of conditions that offed most everything else? It's really mind boggling to try and grasp just HOW MANY opportunities evolution has had to mess around in the microcosmos. Most of these prokaryotes live a matter of hours per generation, right? With about 8700 hours in a year (VERY rough estimate) - and 4 BILLION YEARS - oh and not forgetting that every single gene can get up to whatever sort of mischief? I can't even wrap my head around numbers that large. I'm never surprised at being astonished by what we find under the microscope. There's so much POSSIBLE that weird stuff is guaranteed - but it's still mysterious just what kind of weird we will find!

[@tongzhi9969]

Seems they've mastered the power of the primeval current

[@tatoverde9312]

Nice job

[@leekspinner]

This made me think about how ones control the others, which might seem against true freedom, but that is exactly how a functioning system is made.

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Imagine multicellular bacteria in an alternate world 🌍.

[@YukiDemonOfHell]

ooooo I thought something like this existed! since I was pondering how we went from one cell organisms to multi cell organisms. I thought it'd make sense if there were groups of symbiotic cells that became so reliant on each other they slowly became one organism and this definitely supports that hypothesis! (if this is something that is well known in the science world then neat! I only have a high school level of education on the subject lol)

[@Jay_Kay666]

Siphonophores are next level. Individual multicellulars that are so co-dependent that some act as stomach and others as reproductive organs.

[@gastonmarian7261]

Look into the Portuguese man of war! Also it's interesting to consider how humans as individual organisms can work collectively to support mutual thriving, communicating not electrochemically as with hormones, pheromones, and nervous systems, but with pressure waves in the air and a digital nervous system communicating ideas, sustaining a psychic substructure, the collective unconscious that is culture, shaping the direction societies move. At their highest manifestation, humans move towards mutual thriving and evolution of us and the biosphere we live within, as surely as the consortium of bacteria likewise move towards the Light.

[@hardstyle4evajarhead]

1 of 1 Channel

[@edgeeffect]

Been a "symbiosis fan" since "high school" biology in the 1980s but never heard of this... thanks.

[@NTH88307]

remember a day when some bacteria wanna change their hometown ? "Papa, I wanna go to the city, here is so boring and we are poor as dirt" "Good thought, my boy. Now before u go, should hail our taxi neighbor, he knows where to go. Tell him papa sends him regards"

[@heckers]

this is adorable ❤

[@berthainesguerrabriones2956]

E coli also forms this in bladder its called intracellular bacterial communities

[@THEHOUSEOFSATIO]

Consortium stuff I see

[@susanne5803]

I knew "biofilm" but not "consortium". Are they identical? If not - how are they different? Thank you!

[@cryptbeast3222]

Probably the actual little microenvironment the biofilm creates and the critters are bound to. These guys are just traveling and grouping like a school of fish.

[@foxshot97]

Consortium means a collection of different species. Biofilms are often consortia, but all consortia are not biofilms. Plants for example typically host a microbial consortium in their roots and leaves, which can live in the plants intercellular spaces or on the surface in films or clusters, depending on the environmental conditions and species present

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

they are not the same. Biofilms are typically narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

[@PhotonVideos]

makes me think of mitochondria and how that pairing ended up. guess well have to wait and see if anything comes of its evolution 😅

[@opeuscet]

Is there a time limit for the microscope offer ?

[@ooooneeee]

I don't think so, they've been selling those for a while now and they don't seem to be on sale.

[@wamlartmuse]

4:20 you've seen 🌽, you've seen mini 🌽, but have you seen micro 🌽!?

[@Automobilestats]

wow, that was fantastic!!!!

[@chir0pter]

Symbiobacter and gsb’s- the next eukaryote? Or a hint at how our own lineage got started?

[@Dowlphin]

Human society can be understood by looking at its roots. No, not cavemen. Bacteria. Basic behavioral patterns are similar, but we worked our way into this amazing toy "complexity" in the survival game that now we want to make use of the prize, so we make up problems that justify the survival-of-the-fittest trauma baggage carried. P.S.: Early in this video I thought of the man-o-war.

[@kylerosenberg2508]

Is there anywhere I can read about non-photosynthetic motile consortia. It's for a research project I'm working on.

[@syedzameer8022]

Biology is beautiful

[@Mythicsparks]

is a consortia considered as one colony or one organism

[@TheYear-dm9op]

I'm working at an online shop for aquaristics. We also sell and grow or at least keep plants, some of them submersed. There was a time where we have had problems with very milky water and there was this customer that was a microbiologist keen on getting his hands on yeasts. He hoped that it was some yeast growing in the tanks and wanted a sample to check the protein profile. I said I watched the stuff under the microscope and to me it was some indistinguishable blobs on a very small scale, like 1-5 µm, and proposed it was either some very tiny algae oder ciliates or bacteria. I didn't think of yeast at all. He countered "You can't see bacteria in a light microscope" and I was like "Wat?! Is this certified scientist for real?!". Gram: Am I nothing to you? xD Well he sampled it, it wasn't yeast and he immediately lost interest. In my opinion the bio diversity in those tanks was very low. There were only tiny species, not a single bigger ciliate or something. I wonder if that is because my boss likes do solve problems with chemicals/uv that probably also kill predators of those tiny annoyances and thus the tanks never get over their cycling phase. I just know that in my personal tank at home there is a lot more biodiversity going on under the microscope. Those tanks at work also have massive green water blooms on a regular basis.

[@WobblesandBean]

Sounds to me like the missing link between unicellular and multicellular life.

[@kylerosenberg2508]

You're very close! Eukaryotes originated as a consortium between an Archean host cell and an alphaproteobacterium. The relationship likely allowed the host to receive amino acids and protection from oxidative stress in exchange for lodging and diatomic hydrogen. Over time, the oxygen-scavenging organism became the mitochondria observed in modern eukaryotes and had substantially miniaturized its genome, lowering its energy consumption and allowing it to donate ATP to its host. This, coupled with the fact that mitochondria are able to self-replicate on their own, is what had allowed eukaryotes to scale up respiration and increase their energy yields. With this, eukaryotes could house massive genomes and a greater variety of proteins which require energy to replace and manufacture. Complex multicellularity (as defined by tissue differentiation) is only possible with this form of energetic stockpiling. Prokaryotes on the other hand have developed multicellularity on a number of separate occasions, but stayed small since they were held back by their inability to scale up their metabolism to match their increased energy demands.

[@hy-longcat]

so i suppose then that mitochondria have formed a consortium with archaea to form eukarya?

[@feiryfella]

We were thinking about 'multicellular life' all wrong!

[@yobroh0]

Makes me feel like I’m merely a vessel for bacteria to move around. Maybe I should do more exercise…

[@feralbluee]

mother nature “simply does what works”. should be the basis of biology 101. 🌷🌱 and, i suppose, any ology!

[@laratheplanespotter]

I want one but I don’t have that much money 😢. I’ll have to enjoy your videos instead!

[@peytoia]

Omg biofilm??

[@MBMCincy63]

9:09 "The closer you look, the more you realize, life does not let us draw hard lines around anything." This should be on a shirt/ mug/ sticker. It applies to everything. We are learning climate change is fighting our "disposition for routine/remaining the same" and getting the lesson of our short lives. Rivers want to meander, not stay walled in. Forests need undergrowth removed and some charing for it's own health: now they've become overwhelmed and are easily consumed by fire.

[@fontende]

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[@lpc9929]

Bacteria is universe

[@IQorJustQForShort]

The the

[@jamesourmasterofmicroscopes]

5:07

[@AjeebJstoi]

❤

[@kidmohair8151]

further reinforcing the notion that humanity is nothing more than evolved, coherent slime mould

[@BishounenLuvr]

😫

[@brendakrieger7000]

Always enjoyable🔬🦠💚

[@ganardian6224]

Belajar mikroskopik #8

[@Ty_son]

Microorganisms p.rn 😂

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

so.... *_Candidatus symbiobacter mobilis_* is just a bacterial car. got it.

[@TerryHope]

this stickiness has been in my thoughts for months/years.. how it relates to health issues.. although more about resin, crystal form of THC from a weed.

[@gabilauria7769]

come back rotifer i miss you hope you didn't get eaten or die

[@LouisGedo]

👋

[@ubtpixielox]

Single celled bus driver

[@LoveHandle4890]

How romantic in a way that they can’t survive without each other, just like humans.

[@BlinkPopShift]

Am I a consortium?

[@Friedermanns]

You're a pluricellular being, my folk.

[@bennyfactor]

bacterial zaibatsu

[@matthias2716]

Please don't do reverb on the narration.

[@lincolnbaldock9552]

I’m the next viewer

[@moralfortitude...2217]

It takes more than 1, joining together to survive...not 1 is an island 🏝 they know it, so why is the human mentality so twisted, that it's better to be an island 🏝... 🤨🙄🤔

[@Nobody_Special310]

Hello.

[@Megneous]

Video starts at 1:07

[@jakobraahauge7299]

will we see feces one day?

[@TerryHope]

Ogulur et al., 2023. Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Stated alcohol ethoxylate as the gut destroying culprit.

[@melissasalasblair5273]

Awesome, thanks!! 💠🏗🏘💭🌌 :36 3:45 yeppers 7:15-7:27 9:04-9:14

[@AjeebJstoi]

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