Geobacter psychrophilus

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Geobacter psychrophilus
Scientific classification Edit this 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 P35T (=ATCC BAA-1013T =DSM 16674T =JCM 12644T).[1]

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