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Title: Summer investigations into the metabolic diversity of the microbial world

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6467144· OSTI ID:6467144

The philosophy of the course described here is to underscore the essence of microbiology which is diversity>: diversity of morphology and cellular development, behavior, and metabolic and physiological functions. Emphasis is on microbes other than those customarily covered in conventional microbiology courses and includes: the archaebacteria, extremophiles, and array of obligate anaerobes, various phototrophs, and those microbes exhibiting complex developmental cycles. Also included are microbes carrying out a variety of transformations of organic and inorganic compounds, as well as those which normally occur in symbiotic association with other microbes or with higher forms of life.

Research Organization:
Marine Biological Lab., Woods Hole, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-85ER13361
OSTI ID:
6467144
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/13361-T4; ON: DE93014837
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English