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SUBMITTER: Nolan M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3035368 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Standards in genomic sciences 20101027 2
Ferrimonas balearica Rossello-Mora et al. 1996 is the type species of the genus Ferrimonas, which belongs to the family Ferrimonadaceae within the Gammaproteobacteria. The species is a Gram-negative, motile, facultatively anaerobic, non spore-forming bacterium, which is of special interest because it is a chemoorganotroph and has a strictly respiratory metabolism with oxygen, nitrate, Fe(III)-oxyhydroxide, Fe(III)-citrate, MnO(2), selenate, selenite and thiosulfate as electron acceptors. This is ...[more]