Abstract
When pure cultures of the bacteria Pseudomonas fluorescens (a psychrotroph), Escherichia coli (a mesophile), and SRL 261 (a thermophile) were shifted away from temperatures to which they were adapted, the percentage of substrate mineralized increased (percent mineralized = [substrate respired to CO2]/substrate respired to CO2 + substrate incorporated into biomass] X 100). The increase in the percent mineralized was larger for larger temperature shifts. Similar responses were observed when natural heterotrophic bacterial populations from sediments of Lake George, N.Y., and a thermophilic algal-bacterial mat community at the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, S.C., were subjected to temperature shifts. These results suggest that an increase in the percent mineralized may be an indication of thermal stress in bacterial populations.
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