Biology:Geobacter psychrophilus

Short description: Species of bacterium

Geobacter psychrophilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Deltaproteobacteria
Order:	Desulfuromonadales
Family:	Geobacteraceae
Genus:	Geobacter
Species:	G. psychrophilus Nevin et al. 2005

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).

Further reading

• Coates, John D. (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. PMID 8633852. 
• "Influence of anode potentials on selection of Geobacter strains in microbial electrolysis cells.". Bioresour Technol 139: 226–34. 2013. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2013.04.047. PMID 23665518. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=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. PMID 20078895. 

External links

• LPSN
• Type strain of Geobacter psychrophilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Wikidata ☰ Q16982259 entry