Geobacter psychrophilus is a Fe(III)-reducing bacterium. It is Gram-negative, slightly curved, rod-shaped and motile via means of monotrichous flagella. Its type strain is P35T (=ATCC BAA-1013T =DSM 16674T =JCM 12644T).[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Thermodesulfobacteriota |
| Class: | Desulfuromonadia |
| Order: | Geobacterales |
| Family: | Geobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Geobacter |
| Species: | G. psychrophilus
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| Geobacter psychrophilus Nevin et al. 2005
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References
edit- ^ Nevin, K. P. (2005). "Geobacter bemidjiensis sp. nov. and Geobacter psychrophilus sp. nov., two novel Fe(III)-reducing subsurface isolates". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (4): 1667–1674. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63417-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 16014499.
Further reading
edit- Coates, John D.; et al. (1996). "Isolation of Geobacter species from diverse sedimentary environments". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 62 (5): 1531–1536. doi:10.1128/AEM.62.5.1531-1536.1996. PMC 167928. PMID 8633852.
- Commault AS, Lear G, Packer MA, Weld RJ (2013). "Influence of anode potentials on selection of Geobacter strains in microbial electrolysis cells". Bioresour Technol. 139: 226–34. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2013.04.047. PMID 23665518.
- Butler, Jessica E; Young, Nelson D; Lovley, Derek R (2010). "Evolution of electron transfer out of the cell: comparative genomics of six Geobacter genomes". BMC Genomics. 11 (1): 40. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-40. ISSN 1471-2164. PMC 2825233. PMID 20078895.
External links
edit- "Geobacter psychrophilus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- Type strain of Geobacter psychrophilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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