Common Laboratory Microbes
By Levi Clancy for Student Reader on
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- Laboratory Methods
- Acids and Bases
- Antibody techniques
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Cell Culture
- Chemical Kinetics
- Common Laboratory Microbes
- Competition Assay
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Experimental Design by the Scientific Method
- Focus Assay
- Genetic techniques
- Measurement
- Models & Representations
- Mouse Models
- Pathology techniques
- Protein analysis
- Visual Assays
| Microbe | Overview |
|---|---|
Pseudomonads | Optimal temperature of 30°C; strict aerobes, except in presence of nitrate or amino acids, and never fermentative; gram-negative; motile; non-sporulating; and cytochrome oxidase positive. No more than 3µm in size. Some species are capable of dissimilative nitrate reduction (denitrification) -- assimilative nitrate reduction is for nitrogen as a general nutrient, instead of an energy source. |
E. Coli | Rod-shaped, gram-negative, motile and diverse. |
M. smeg | |
S. epidermidis | |
S. salivarius | Gram-positive chains of cocci; requires sucrose to form capsules; ferments glucose. |
Streptomyces | Soil-dwelling sporulating strict aerobes, many of which secrete antibiotics. |