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Afipia felis | Afipia felis | ||
Moraxella osloensis | Moraxella osloensis (Kelley et. al 2004) | ||
Methicillin Resistant [[Staphylococcus aureus]] (MRSA) | Methicillin Resistant [[Staphylococcus aureus]] (MRSA) | ||
[[Escherichia coli]] | [[Escherichia coli]] (Barrett 2003) | ||
===Are there any other non-microbes present?=== | ===Are there any other non-microbes present?=== | ||
Revision as of 12:54, 26 August 2008
Description of Niche
Where located?
Physical Conditions?
What are the conditions in your niche? Temperature, pressure, pH, moisture, etc.
Influence by Adjacent Communities (if any)
Is your niche close to another niche or influenced by another community of organisms?
Conditions under which the environment changes
Do any of the physical conditions change? Are there chemicals, other organisms, nutrients, etc. that might change the community of your niche.
Who lives there?
Which microbes are present?
Nocardia
Afipia felis
Moraxella osloensis (Kelley et. al 2004)
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Escherichia coli (Barrett 2003)
Are there any other non-microbes present?
Phoma violacea
Do the microbes that are present interact with each other?
Describe any negative (competition) or positive (symbiosis) behavior
Do the microbes change their environment?
Do they alter pH, attach to surfaces, secrete anything, etc. etc.
Do the microbes carry out any metabolism that affects their environment?
Do they ferment sugars to produce acid, break down large molecules, fix nitrogen, etc. etc.
Current Research
Enter summaries of the most recent research. You may find it more appropriate to include this as a subsection under several of your other sections rather than separately here at the end. You should include at least FOUR topics of research and summarize each in terms of the question being asked, the results so far, and the topics for future study. (more will be expected from larger groups than from smaller groups)
References
Scott T. Kelley, Ulrike Theisen, Largus T. Angenent, Allison St. Amand, and Norman R. Pace. "Molecular Analysis of Shower Curtain Biofilm Microbes" 25 March, 2004. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2004, Vol. 70, No. 7, p. 4187-4192.
