when bacteroides thetaiotaomicron , an obligate anaerobe from the human colonic flora , was grown in continuous culture with the mucopolysaccharide chondroitin sulfate as the limiting source of carbohydrate , growth yields ranged from 48 g of cell dry weight per mol of equivalent monosaccharide at a growth rate of 3.5 h per generation to 32 g per mol at a growth rate of 24 h per generation .
C0007004
carbohydrate
C0026492
monosaccharide