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Phyla: Filamentous Actinobacteria
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Most are obligate aerobes
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Phyla: Bacteroidetes
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Aerobes and anaerobes
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Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
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Strict anaerobe
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Phyla: Cyanobacteria
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autotrophs
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Phyla: Proteobacteria
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Most metabolically diverse phylum:
Chemolithotrophs, Chemoorganotrophs, Phototrophs, Facultative organisms
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Escherichia coli
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facultative aerobes
ferments lactose = anerobic
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Does not ferment sugars
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Phyla: Firmicutes -- lactic acid bacteria
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Aerotolerant anaerobes that produce lactic acid as an end product of fermentation
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Staphylococcus aureus
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Facultative aerobe
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Bacillus genera
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aerobic endospore formers
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Clostridium genera
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strictly anaerobic endospore formers with fermentative metabolism
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Thermus aquaticus
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thermophilic chemoorganoheterotroph
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Halobacterium salinarum
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Photoheterotrophy
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Methanobacterium
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Strict anaerobes
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Nitrosopumilus maritimus
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Aerobic, ammonia oxidizing chemolithoautotroph
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Korarchaeum cryptofilum
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Obligately anaerobic chemoorganotroph
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Crenarchaeota
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Chemoorganotrophs or chemolithotrophs
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Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
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Aerobic chemolithotroph
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