Geobacter psychrophilus

Geobacter psychrophilus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
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 P35^T (=ATCC BAA-1013^T =DSM 16674^T =JCM 12644^T). ^[1]

References

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.

Further reading

• 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

• "Geobacter psychrophilus". The Encyclopedia of Life .
• Type strain of Geobacter psychrophilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase