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Geobacter psychrophilus

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Geobacter psychrophilus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Thermodesulfobacteriota
Class: Desulfuromonadia
Order: Geobacterales
Family: Geobacteraceae
Genus: Geobacter
Species:
G. psychrophilus
Binomial name
Geobacter psychrophilus
Nevin et al. 2005
Synonyms
  • Citrifermentans pelophilus (Straub & Buchholz-Cleven 2001) Waite et al. 2020
  • Geoanaerobacter pelophilus (Straub & Buchholz-Cleven 2001) Xu et al. 2022
  • Geomonas pelophila (Straub & Buchholz-Cleven 2001) Xu et al. 2020

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]

References

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  1. ^ 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.

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