BIOL/CSES 4164 - Microbes

THE MICROBES

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

BIOL/CEE/CSES/ENSC 4164

In 1998 each student in Soil microbiology was asked to do a webpage on a soil microorganism as their individual assignment. The genus Pseudomonas was done for them as an example to follow.

The students appeared to be genuinely interested in this assignment and they did an outstanding job on their microbe webpages. Each student certainly learned much about the microbe that they selected for their project. The images on their webpages were from many sources that included materials that the students prepared in lab (and subsequently photographed), images from other internet sites, and images that were scanned from books or journals (with permission from the publishers).

PROCARYOTES - BACTERIA

**TRUE BACTERIA - HETEROTROPHS**
Gram Negative	Gram Positive	Actinomycetes
Pseudomonas	Bacillus	Rhodococcus
Rhizobium	Clostridium	Nocardia
Bradyrhizobium	Enterococcus	Frankia
Azotobacter	Corynebacterium	Streptomyces
Agrobacterium	Arthrobacter
Serratia	Mycobacterium
Desulfovibrio	Micrococcus
Flavobacterium
Enterobacter
Sphaerotilus
Spirillum
Myxococcus
Escherichia
Photobacterium
Leptothrix

**TRUE BACTERIA - AUTOTROPHS**
Photoautotrophs	Nitrifiers	Sulfur Oxidizers
Purple Sulfur	Nitrosomonas	Thiobacillus
Green Sulfur	Nitrobacter	Beggiatoa
Purple Nonsulfur

Methanotrophs
Methylomonas

**ARCHAEABACTERIA**
Methanogens	Halophiles	Hyperthermophiles
Methanobacterium	Halobacterium	Thermococcus
	Natronobacterium

Sulfur Dependent
Sulfolobus

**CYANOBACTERIA (BLUE-GREEN ALGAE)**
Oscillatoria

EUCARYOTES - FUNGI

**SAPROPHYTIC FUNGI**
Aspergillus	Fusarium	Penicillium
Trichoderma	Saccharomyces	Rhizopus
Rhizoctonia

**MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI**
Glomus	Pisolithus

**PROTOZOA**
Amoeba	Giardia-1	Giardia-2	Cryptosporidium

**SLIME MOLDS**
Dictyostelium