Geobacter sulfurreducens
| Geobacter sulfurreducens | |
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| A transmission electron micrograph of Geobacter sulfurreducens cells
Credit: Anna Klimes and Ernie Carbone, UMass Amherst | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Thermodesulfobacteriota |
| Class: | Desulfuromonadia |
| Order: | Geobacterales |
| Family: | Geobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Geobacter |
| Species: | G. sulfurreducens
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| Binomial name | |
| Geobacter sulfurreducens Caccavo et al., 1994
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Geobacter sulfurreducens is a gram-negative metal- and sulphur-reducing proteobacterium.[1] It is rod-shaped, aerotolerant[2] anaerobe, non-fermentative, has flagellum and type four pili, and is closely related to Geobacter metallireducens. Geobacter sulfurreducens is an anaerobic species of bacteria that comes from the family of bacteria called Geobacteraceae.[3] Under the genus of Geobacter, G. sulfurreducens is one out of twenty different species. The Geobacter genus was discovered by Derek R. Lovley in 1987.[4] G. sulfurreducens was first isolated in Norman, Oklahoma, USA from materials found around the surface of a contaminated ditch.[5]
- ^ Caccavo F, Lonergan DJ, Lovley DR, Davis M, Stolz JF, McInerney MJ (October 1994). "Geobacter sulfurreducens sp. nov., a hydrogen- and acetate-oxidizing dissimilatory metal-reducing microorganism". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 60 (10): 3752–9. doi:10.1128/AEM.60.10.3752-3759.1994. PMC 201883. PMID 7527204.
- ^ Lin, W. C., Coppi, M. V., & Lovley, D. R. (2004). Geobacter sulfurreducens Can Grow with Oxygen as a Terminal Electron Acceptor. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70(4), 2525–2528. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.70.4.2525-2528.2004
- ^ Parker, Charles Thomas; Wigley, Sarah; Garrity, George M (2009). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Taxonomic Abstract for the genera". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/tx.3640.
- ^ Poddar, Sushmita (2011). "Geobacter: The Electric Microbe! Efficient Microbial Fuel Cells to Generate Clean, Cheap Electricity". Indian Journal of Microbiology. 51 (2): 240–241. doi:10.1007/s12088-011-0180-8. PMC 3209890. PMID 22654173.
- ^ "Home - BioProject - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2018-04-11.