''Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans'' is a bacterium, the type species of its genus.
It is a
ferrous-iron-oxidizing, moderately
thermophilic
A thermophile is a type of extremophile that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between . Many thermophiles are archaea, though some of them are bacteria and fungi. Thermophilic eubacteria are suggested to have been among the earliest bact ...
and
acidophilic
Acidophiles or acidophilic organisms are those that thrive under highly acidic conditions (usually at pH 5.0 or below). These organisms can be found in different branches of the tree of life, including Archaea, Bacteria,Becker, A.Types of Bacteri ...
bacterium. A complete
genome
A genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding genes, other functional regions of the genome such as ...
of one
strain, DSM 10331 isolated in Iceland from hot spring runoff water, has been resolved.
References
Further reading
*Clum, Alicia, et al. "Complete genome sequence of Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans type strain (ICPT)." Standards in Genomic Sciences 1.1 (2009): 38.
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*Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
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External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Actinomycetota
Bacteria described in 1996
Thermophiles
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