Abstract
We have searched for currents through gliding filaments of the giant cyanobacterium, Oscillatoria princeps, as well as through two species of Anabaena and found none. Current loops associated with gliding (and which would therefore have dimensions of the order of a filament length) should have been detected if they had surface densities of 0.03 to 0.1 µA/cm2 or more; while current loops through Anabaena heterocysts should have been detected if they had surface densities of the order of 1 to 3 µA/cm2 or more. The relationship of these negative findings to earlier reports of large voltages along Phormidium filaments is discussed.
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