%0 Journal Article %A Lloyd, David %A Ball, Judith %T Perturbation of Respiration in Candida utilis: Induction of Metabolic Oscillations %D 1979 %J Microbiology, %V 114 %N 2 %P 463-466 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-114-2-463 %I Microbiology Society, %X The effects of potentially perturbating influences on the respiration of glucose-grown Candida utilis were studied using an open oxygen electrode system. Periods of anaerobiosis as short as 2 min produced an oscillation in respiration after the air supply was restored. Longer exposure to anoxia was followed by an overshoot in dissolved oxygen after switching back to a gas phase of air. Centrifugation, cold shock or nutrient starvation caused less disturbance to respiration rates than did anaerobiosis. The high frequency oscillations (period about 5 min) resulting from anaerobic-aerobic transitions are contrasted with the slow cell cycle-dependent oscillations previously observed in synchronous cultures. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-114-2-463