Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans is a bacterium, the type species of its genus.[1] It is a ferrous-iron-oxidizing, moderately thermophilic and acidophilic bacterium. A complete genome of one strain, DSM 10331 isolated in Iceland from hot spring runoff water,[2] has been resolved.[3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Acidimicrobiia |
| Order: | Acidimicrobiales |
| Family: | Acidimicrobiaceae |
| Genus: | Acidimicrobium Clark and Norris 1996[1] |
| Species: | A. ferrooxidans
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| Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans Clark and Norris 1996[1]
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References
edit- ^ a b c Clark, D. A.; Norris, P. R. (1996). "Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans gen. nov., sp. nov.: Mixed-culture ferrous iron oxidation with Sulfobacillus species". Microbiology. 142 (4): 785–790. doi:10.1099/00221287-142-4-785. ISSN 1350-0872.
- ^ Norris, P.R. (1993). "Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans DSM 10331". DSMZ. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
- ^ Stackebrandt E (2014). "The Family Acidimicrobiaceae". In Rosenberg E, DeLong EF, Lor S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F (eds.). The Prokaryotes (4th ed.). Springer Reference. p. 7. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30138-4. ISBN 978-3-642-30137-7 – via Wikipedia Library.
- ^ GenBank Accession number: CP001631
Further reading
edit- Clum, Alicia, et al. "Complete genome sequence of Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans type strain (ICPT)." Standards in Genomic Sciences 1.1 (2009): 38.
- Cleaver, A. A.; Burton, N. P.; Norris, P. R. (2007). "A Novel Acidimicrobium Species in Continuous Cultures of Moderately Thermophilic, Mineral-Sulfide-Oxidizing Acidophiles". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73 (13): 4294–4299. doi:10.1128/AEM.02658-06. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 1932778. PMID 17468267.
- Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
- Wolfgang Sand; Edgardo R. Donati (2007). Microbial processing of metal sulfides. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-5589-8.
External links
edit- "Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- LPSN
- Type strain of Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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