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Main Title Special Applications of Insect Gut Microflora in Kinetic Studies of Microbial Substrate Removal Rates.
Author Lewis, D. L. ; Said, W. A. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab., Athens, GA. ;Technology Applications, Inc., Athens, GA. ;Georgia Univ., Athens.
Publisher cJul 89
Year Published 1989
Report Number EPA/600/J-89/253;
Stock Number PB90-135526
Additional Subjects Removal ; Substrates ; Insects ; Termites ; Nutrients ; Biodeterioration ; Concentration(Composition) ; Temperature ; Responses ; Microorganisms ; Genetics ; Kinetics ; Aquatic biology ; Reprints ; Guts
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Abstract Because of the highly controlled environment in which they live and their unique genetic history, the gut microflora of some insects may be useful for studying some of the underlying principles that govern the kinetics of uptake and metabolism of substrates by microorganisms. In the present studies, D-glucose mineralization kinetics were investigated using facultative anaerobes from termite gut microflora to test the similarity of kinetics principles developed previously with aquatic environmental microbial samples. As with environmental samples, heterogeneous kinetics were observed in the gut microflora, with increasingly enhanced glucose removal rates at diminishing amended substrate concentrations. These results lend support to the general applicability of these kinetics principles to a diversity of mixed microbial populations having greatly dissimilar environmental histories.
Supplementary Notes Pub. in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, v8 n7 p563-567 Jul 89. Prepared in cooperation with Technology Applications, Inc., Athens, GA., and Georgia Univ., Athens.
NTIS Title Notes Journal article.
Title Annotations Reprint: Special Applications of Insect Gut Microflora in Kinetic Studies of Microbial Substrate Removal Rates.
Category Codes 57K; 57I
NTIS Prices PC A02/MF A01
Primary Description 600/01
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Control Number 004019261
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Type CAT