''Thauera selenatis'' is a

gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...

rod-shaped Bacterial cellular morphologies are the shapes that are characteristic of various types of bacteria and often key to their identification. Their direct examination under a light microscope enables the classification of these bacteria (and archae ...

motile

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from the genus of

Thauera ''Thauera'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the family ''Zoogloeaceae'' of the order ''Rhodocyclales'' of the ''Betaproteobacteria ''Betaproteobacteria'' are a class of Gram-negative bacteria, and one of the six classes of the phylum ...

with a single polar

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. ''Thauera selenatis'' has the ability to generate energy by respiring anaerobically with the enzyme selenate reductase.

References

Rhodocyclaceae Bacteria described in 1993 {{betaproteobacteria-stub