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Aerotolerant anaerobes grow equally well whether oxygen is present or not; they can tolerate oxygen, but they do not use it. The ability to grow in both oxic and anoxic environments provides considerable flexibility and is an ecological advantage for facultative and aerotolerant anaerobes. Their important enzymes are SOD, peroxidase
Willey et al. 2023 McGraw Hill, USA, ISBN 978-1-265-12303-1

Aerotolerant bacteria or Facultative aerobic bacteria / Facultative anaerobic organism can survive exposure to air as vegetative cells. Another group of gut microbiota survives air exposure by forming [spores](brain://qGQp2HXa0k…