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# The factors that cause pellicle formation are not well understood. Oxygen is said to cause pellicle formation, but how, why, and in what species is not known. Does more oxygen create a thicker pellicle? If so, for what species does this apply to? Does beer composition (more or less proteins, residual sugars, etc.) affect pellicle appearance? The lack of answers to these questions and others imply that environmental factors are also not helpful in identifying what species of microbe produced a pellicle.

# Identification of microbes under a microscope based on cell morphology alone is not enough to be certain of that identification, let alone attempting to identify microbes based on a visual "macro-level" formation such as a pellicle.

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