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Among organisms, almost all animals, most fungi, and several bacteria are obligate aerobes. [2] Examples of obligately aerobic bacteria include Mycobacterium tuberculosis , [2] [5] Bacillus (Gram-positive), [2] and Nocardia asteroides (Gram-positive). [2] [6] With the exception of the yeasts, most fungi are obligate aerobes. [1]
Some examples of facultatively anaerobic bacteria are Staphylococcus spp., [3] Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Listeria spp., [4] Shewanella oneidensis and Yersinia pestis. Certain eukaryotes are also facultative anaerobes, including fungi such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae [ 5 ] and many aquatic invertebrates such as nereid polychaetes .
The remaining bacteria listed do not form endospores. [5] Several species of the Mycobacterium, Streptomyces, and Rhodococcus genera are examples of obligate anaerobe found in soil. [10] Obligate anaerobes are also found in the digestive tracts of humans and other animals as well as in the first stomach of ruminants. [11]
Obligate aerobes need oxygen to grow. In a process known as cellular respiration, these organisms use oxygen to oxidize substrates (for example sugars and fats) and generate energy. [6] Facultative anaerobes use oxygen if it is available, but also have anaerobic methods of energy production. [7]
Obligate intracellular parasites cannot reproduce outside their host cell, meaning that the parasite's reproduction is entirely reliant on intracellular resources. All viruses are obligate intracellular parasites. Bacterial examples (that affect humans) include: Chlamydia, and closely related species. [14] Rickettsia; Coxiella
B. subtilis is a facultative anaerobe [6] [13] and had been considered as an obligate aerobe until 1998. B. subtilis is heavily flagellated , which gives it the ability to move quickly in liquids. B. subtilis has proven highly amenable to genetic manipulation , and has become widely adopted as a model organism for laboratory studies, especially ...
2: Obligate anaerobes are poisoned by oxygen, so they gather at the bottom of the tube where the oxygen concentration is lowest. 3: Facultative anaerobes can grow with or without oxygen because they can metabolise energy aerobically or anaerobically. They gather mostly at the top because aerobic respiration generates more ATP than either ...
Example organisms Aerobic respiration: Obligate aerobes and facultative anaerobes: O 2: H 2 O, CO 2 +0.82 Aerobic prokaryotes: Perchlorate respiration Facultative anaerobes: ClO − 4, ClO − 3: H 2 O, O 2, Cl − +0.797 Azospira suillum, Sedimenticola selenatireducens, Sedimenticola thiotaurini, and other gram negative prokaryotes [10] Iodate ...