Geothermobacterium ferrireducens | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Thermodesulfobacteriota |
Class: | Thermodesulfobacteria |
Order: | Thermodesulfobacteriales |
Family: | Thermodesulfobacteriaceae |
Genus: | Geothermobacterium |
Species: | G. ferrireducens |
Binomial name | |
Geothermobacterium ferrireducens Kashefi et al. 2002 |
Geothermobacterium ferrireducens is a species of hyperthermophilic thermodesulfobacterium discovered and known exclusively from Obsidian Pool in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Its name comes from the Latin ferrum, meaning Iron, and reducens, meaning conversion to a different state. The bacteria are gram-negative rods, and move using a single flagellum. They live in high temperatures, between 65 and 100 °C, with 85 to 90 degrees being the optimum range- the highest optimum temperature range of any member of the phylum Bacteria. They are roughly 0.5 μm by 1.1 μm. They have an unusual biology: they do not require organic carbon for growth, instead growing by coupling hydrogen oxidation with a form of Fe(III) oxide reduction.
References
- taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Geothermobacterium ferrireducens)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ^ Kashefi, Kazem; Holmes, Dawn E.; Reysenbach, Anna-Louise; Lovley, Derek R. (Apr 2002). "Use of Fe(III) as an Electron Acceptor To Recover Previously Uncultured Hyperthermophiles: Isolation and Characterization of Geothermobacterium ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 68 (4): 1735–1742. doi:10.1128/AEM.68.4.1735-1742.2002. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 123901. PMID 11916691.
- "Species: Geothermobacterium ferrireducens". LSPN.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Geothermobacterium ferrireducens |
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