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Microbial ecology of the digestive tract

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Preferred term

facultative anaerobic bacterium  

Definition

  • A facultative anaerobe is an aerobic microorganism that can utilize fermentation when molecular oxygen is absent, and can utilize aerobic cellular respiration when O2 is present. (Source : INRA)

Entry terms

  • facultative anaerobe
  • facultative anaerobic bacteria

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Subject

  • Microbiology

preferred label (skos-xl)

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URI

https://opendata.inra.fr/EMTD/17

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