Microbe Zoo Outline

Animal Pavilion

• Cow Rumen
  • Methane Producer
    
  • Cellulose degrader
    
  • Spirochete in Cow Rumen
    
  • Rumen symbionts
    
  • Rumen protist
    
  • Entodinium dividing
    
  • Hairy Rumen Protist with bacteria
    
  • Ophryoscolex
    
  • Cow Rumen Protist and Bacilli
    

   

• Habitat on Humanity
  • Health Promoting Microbes
    • Health promoting intestinal microbe - Lactobacillus acidophillus
    • Gut Bacterium - E. coli
    • Skin Baterium - Stapylococcus epidermidis
    • Intestinal Dweller - Citrobacter freundii
    • Intestinal Dweller - Proteus vulgaris
    • Intestinal Dweller - Alcaligens faecalis
      
  • Disease Promoting Microbes
    • Tuberculosis microbe
    • Tooth Cavity Cause-Streptococcus
    • Leptospira interrogans
    • Food Poisoning microbe - Salmonella typhimurium
      
      
• Poo Corner
  • Nitrogen Recycler - Ammonia Chomper
    
  • Most Studied Microbe - Escherichia coli
    
  • Swamp Gas Makers - Biofilm of Methane Makers
    

   

• Termite Gut
  • Protists
    
  • Spiral Shaped Microbes

Dirtland

• Ag Acres
  • Natural Insect Killer - Bacillus thuriengensis
    
  • Cause of Plant Tumors - Agrobacterium
    
  • Corn Blight Fungus - Dreschlera
    
  • Grass Disease - Xanthomonas
    
• Compost Heap
  • Wood Eater - Phanerochaete chrysosporium
    
  • Hot Composter - Bacillus stearothermophilus
    
  • Banana Mold
    
  • Thermus thermophilus
    
    
• Deep Underground
  • Bacillus infernus

  
  

• Home Sweet Home
  • Shower Curtain Fungus
    
  • Coffee Cup Fungus

   

• Hot Springs
  • Pyrococcus furiosus
    
  • Thermus thermophilus
    
    
• House of Horrors

   

• Redox Mine
  • Biofilm of Methane Producers
    
  • Methanogens
    
  • Yeast
    
  • Halomonas
    
  • Bacillus megaterium
    
  • Bacillus cereus
    
  • Anaerobic Toluene Degrader
    

   

• Root Cellar
  • Rhizosphere Microbes
    • Azospirillum brasilense
      
    • Nitrifying bacterium
      
    • Azotobacter Cysts
      
  • Rhizobium
    • Rhizobium in Soil
      
    • Rhizobia on Root Hair Tip
      
    • Rhizobia on Clover Root Hair
      
    • Aquatic Root Nodules
      
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi
    • Mycorrhizal Spore
      
    • Giant Spore of endomycorrhizae
      
    • Glomus intraradix
      
    • Glomus intraradix spores
      
    • Mycorrhizal "Little Trees"
      
    • Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Vescicles
      

   

• Statue
  • Lichen

   

• Toxic Waste
  • Anaerobic Toluene Degrader
    
  • Eater of Weed Killer - Salt-loving, 2,4-D degrader
    
  • 2,4-D Animation
    

Snack Bar

• Food Makers
  • Yogurt microbe - Lactobacillus
    
  • Bread makers - Yeast
    
  • Blue Cheese Microbe - Penicillium
    
• Food Contaminators
  • Blood Colored Microbe - Serratia marcescens
    
  • Good guy gone awry - E. coli
    
  • Bacillus cereus

Space Adventure

• Frequent Fliers
  • Bacillus megaterium
    
  • Spores and Threads
    
  • Slime Mold Spores
    

   

• Mission with Microbes

   

• Microbes on Mars?
  • Martian Bacillus?
    

Water World

• Deep Thermal Vents
  • Tube Worm Symbionts
    
  • Pyrococcus furiosus
    
• Pond
  • Spirogyra
    
  • Star Filament Algae Fluorescing
    
  • Methanogens
    
  • Gleocapsa
    
  • Rhodospirillum rubrum
    
  • Hydra with green symbiotic algae
    
  • Algae in symbiotic relationship with hydra
    
  • Actinopod
    
  • Rotifer
    
  • Diatoms
    
  • Mummy-shaped diatoms
    
  • Anabaena
    
  • Amoeba
    
• Pipe Slimers
  • Iron Oxidizer - Leptothrix ochracea

   

• Plankton
  • Diatom
    
  • Dinoflagellate
    
  • Coccolithophore
    
  • Picoplankton
    
• Salty Tidal Pool
  • Halomonas
    
• Sediment
  • Beggiatoa alba
    
• Watery Desert
  • Tiny Plankton
    
    
     
    

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 © 1999 Comm Tech Lab, Michigan State Univeristy. This work was created with support from the National Science Foundation and the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University and by the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Current maintenance is supported by the Comm Tech Lab.