| a survey of culturable aerobic and anaerobic marine bacteria in de novo biofilm formation on natural substrates in st. andrews bay, scotland. | this study reports a novel study of marine biofilm formation comprising aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. samples of quartz and feldspar, minerals commonly found on the earth, were suspended 5 m deep in the north sea off the east coast of st. andrews, scotland for 5 weeks. the assemblage of organisms attached to these stones was cultivated under aerobic and anaerobic conditions in the laboratory. bacteria isolated on marine agar 2216 were all gram-negative and identified to genus level by sequenci ... | 2011 | 21638112 |