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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Geobacter sulfurreducens Caccavo et al., 1994 | |
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Geobacter sulfurreducens is a gram-negative metal- and sulphur-reducing proteobacterium. It is rod-shaped, aerotolerant 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. 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. G. sulfurreducens was first isolated in Norman, Oklahoma, USA from materials found around the surface of a contaminated ditch.