Geobacter psychrophilus explained

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]

Further reading

• Coates . John D. . etal . 1996 . Isolation of Geobacter species from diverse sedimentary environments . Applied and Environmental Microbiology . 62 . 5. 1531–1536 . 10.1128/AEM.62.5.1531-1536.1996 . 8633852 . 167928 .
• Commault AS, Lear G, Packer MA, Weld RJ . Influence of anode potentials on selection of Geobacter strains in microbial electrolysis cells. . Bioresour Technol . 2013 . 139 . 226–34 . 23665518 . 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.04.047 .
• Butler. Jessica E. Young. Nelson D. Lovley. Derek R. Evolution of electron transfer out of the cell: comparative genomics of six Geobacter genomes. BMC Genomics. 11. 1. 2010. 40. 1471-2164. 10.1186/1471-2164-11-40. 20078895. 2825233 . free .

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Nevin. K. P.. 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. 2005. 1667–1674. 1466-5026. 10.1099/ijs.0.63417-0. 16014499. free.