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Trace oxygen is the probable source of slight residual anaerobic growth in the absence of added electron acceptors. Growth occurred only at very low cell densities (○); at higher cell densities that would quickly scavenge oxygen, no increase in biomass was perceptible (□). One sample culture is shown from two replicates.
