The requirement of marine bacteria for seawater in the medium for growth has been observed to reflect their need for the inorganic ions in seawater for their growth and metabolism. Of these inorganic ions, the marine bacteria so far examined in contrast to most terrestrial bacterial species have been found to possess a specific requirement for Na+ for growth. The Na+ requirement for growth has been found to reflect a requirement for the transport of nutrients in marine bacterial cells. This and other information regarding the characteristics of marine bacteria have come from the studies of only a few representatives of a very small fraction of the bacterial population in the sea, and one may well ask how far these observations made with a few species are true for marine bacteria as a group of organisms? In this thesis observations made on non-luminous marine bacteria have been extended to include some representative luminous marine bacteria. In the course of these studies some similarities and differences in the nutrition and metabolism of the two groups of organisms have been noted.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.70093 |
| Date | January 1965 |
| Creators | Srivastava, Vinod Shanker. |
| Contributors | MacLeod, R. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Microbiology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000593860, proquestno: AAINK00554, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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