Exploring the Bacteria Found In Underwater Environments
Motivation
Related People/Researchers
- - Julie A. Huber
- - Stephanie J. Schwabe
- - Jennifer L. Macalady
Introduction
- - All organisms respire, i.e. have a metabolic mechanism by which they obtain energy.
- - Carbon compounds are the fuel for reparation.
- - Bacteria can exist in aerobic (with oxygen) and anaerobic (without oxygen) environments.
- - Aerobic bacteria use dioxygen (O2) as the electron receptor.
- - Anaerobic bacteria must use something other than dioxygen.
- - Facultative bacteria can carryout respiration using either aerobic or anaerobic mechanisms.
- - We are particularly interested in anaerobic bacteria.
Equipment
Experimental
References
Coupled reductive and Oxidative sulfur cycling (Gebiol, 2014)
Energy, Ecology, and the Distribution of Microbial Life (Philosophical Transactions, 2013)