''Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans'' is a bacterium, the type species of its genus.
It is a
ferrous-iron-oxidizing, moderately
thermophilic
A thermophile is an organism—a type of extremophile—that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between . Many thermophiles are archaea, though they can be bacteria or fungi. Thermophilic eubacteria are suggested to have been among the earl ...
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 Bacteria ...
bacterium.
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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