Prokaryotic Diversity Bacteria
Proteobacteria
1. Phototrophic, chemolithotrophic, methanotrophic 2. Aerobic, facultative, chemoorganotrophic
3. Morphologically different proteobacteria 4. Delta and epsilon proteobacteria
Gram-Positive and Other
Bacteria
Proteobacteria
1. Phototrophic, chemolithotrophic, methanotrophic
Purple Phototrophic Bacteria
Nitrifying Bacteria
Sulfur and Iron Oxidizing Bacteria
Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria
Methanotrophs and Methylotrophs
Proteobacteria
1. Phototrophic, chemolithotrophic, methanotrophic Purple Phototrophic Bacteria
Chromatium spp., Rhodobacter spp.
Anoxigenic photosynthesis,
Bacteriochlorophyll,
Photophosphorylation
Intracellular membrane folding
Proteobacteria
1. Phototrophic, chemolithotrophic, methanotrophic
Purple Phototrophic Bacteria
Aerobic anoxogenic phototrophs
Erythrobacter, Roseobacter, Citromicrobium spp.
Oxygenic photosynthesis, Bacteriochlorophyll a, Photophosphorylation
They use organic carbon (heterotroph) in
seas, oligotrophic lakes
Proteobacteria
1. Phototrophic, chemolithotrophic, methanotrophic Nitrifying Bacteria
Nitrosomonas spp. Nitrobacter spp.
Chemolithotroph, aerobic
Ammonia (NH3) Nitrosomonas Nitrite(NO2-)
Nitrite (NO2-) Nitrobacter Nitrate (NO3-)
Proteobacteria
2. Aerobic, facultative, chemoorganotrophic
Pseudomonas and Pseudomonads
Acetic Acid Bacteria
Free Living Aerobic Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria (Azotobacter spp.)
Neisseria, Chromobacterium and Relative Groups
Enteric Bacteria (Escherichia coli)
Vibrio, Aliivibrio and Photobacterium
Rickettsia
Proteobacteria
2. Aerobic, facultative, chemoorganotrophic
Enteric Bacteria
Escherichia, Salmonella, Shigella, Proteus, Enterobacter spp.
Patojen species exists (E. coli, Salmonella typhi, Shigella dysenteriae).
Facultative
There are mixed acid fermentation and
butanediol fermentation species.
Proteobacteria
2. Aerobic, facultative,
chemoorganotrophic Vibrio, Aliivibrio and Photobacterium
Vibrio choleraVibrio cholera
Bioluminescence, light emittingBioluminescence, light emitting
Facultative, scattering in oxygenFacultative, scattering in oxygen
A long chain aliphatic aldehyde (RCHO) + O2 + A long chain aliphatic aldehyde (RCHO) + O2 + Flavin mononucleotide (FMNH2
Flavin mononucleotide (FMNH2) ) Luciferase Luciferase FMN + RCOOH + H2O + light
FMN + RCOOH + H2O + light
Proteobacteria
3. Morphologically different proteobacteria
Spirilla
Sheathed Proteobacteria: Sphaerotilus and Leptothrix
Bacteria and Prostate / Stem Bacteria
Proteobacteria
4. Delta and epsilon proteobacteria
Sliming Myxobacteria
Sulfate and Sulfur Reducing Proteobacteria
Epsilonproteobacteria
Gram-Positive and Other Bacteria
1. Gram-Positive Bacteria and Actinobacteria 2. Cyanobacteria and Prochlorophytes
3. Chlamydia
4. Planctomyces / Pirellula 5. Verrucomicrobia
6. Flavobacteria 7. Cytophaga
8. Green Sulfur Bacteria 9. Spirochetes
10. Deinococci
11. Green Sulfur-free bacteria 12. Hyperthermophilic Bacteria 13. Nitrospira and Deferribacter
Gram-Positive and Other Bacteria
Gram-Positive Bacteria and Actinobacteria
a. Gram-positive bacteria without sports (Staphylococcus, Lactobacillus spp.)
b. Spore Gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus, Clostridium spp.)
c. Gram-positive bacteria without cell wall (Mycoplasma spp.)
D. Actinobacteria: Coryneform and propionic acid bacteria
to. Actinobacteria: Mycobacterium
f. Filamentous Actinobacteria: Streptomyces
2. Cyanobacteria and Prochlorophytes
5 pylums:
Crenarchaeota,
Euryarchaeota,
Nanoarchaeota,
Korarchaeota,
Thaumarchaeota
Prokaryotic Diversity Archaea
Prokaryotic Diversity Archaea
Euryarchaeota
Methanogens (anaerob) Methanopyrus
Halofils (aerob)
Thermococcus, Pyrococcus
(hyperthermophil)
Thermoplasma (does not contain cell wall)
Crenarchaeota
Hyperthermophil (most of them chemolithotrophic
autotrophs)
Clustered in short
branches in the tree of life, slowly evolved, the first
arches
They have fast-evolving cold relatives who settle on long branches in the tree.
Eukaryotic
Microorganisms
Protists
1. Diplomonad and Parabasalid (Giardia, Trichomonas spp.)
2. Euglenozoan (Trypanosoma, Euglena spp.)
3. Alveolates (Plasmodium, Paramecium spp.)
4. Stramenopiles (Phytophthora spp.)
5. Cercozoans and Radiolarians
6. Amoebozoa (Amoeba, Dictyostelium spp.)
Fungi
Single Cell Red and Green Algae
Eukaryotic
Microorganisms
Protists
Fungi
Chytridiomycetes
Zygomycetes (Rhizopus spp.)
Glomeromycetes
Ascomycetes (Saccharomyces, Candida spp.)
Basidiomycetes (Agaricus spp.)
Single Cell Red and Green Algae
Eukaryotic Microorganisms
Protists
Fungi
Single Cell Red and Green Algae
1. Single Cell Red Algae (Rhodophytes) (Cyanidioschyzon spp.)
2. Single Cell Green Algae (Chlorophytes)
(Chlamydomonas, Volvox spp.)