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Fervidobacterium gondwanense

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Fervidobacterium gondwanense
This is a map of Australia with the light blue area showing the Great Artesian Basin region
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F. gondwanense
Binomial name
Fervidobacterium gondwanense
Andrews and Patel 1996

Fervidobacterium gondwanense (F. godwanense) is a species of thermophilic anaerobic bacteria. It is non-sporulating, motile, gram-negative, and rod-shaped. F. godwanense was isolated in Great Artesian basin in Australia from non-volcanicly heated geothermal waters.[1]

Fervidobacterium godwanense grows best at temperatures from 65 °C to 68 °C and does not grow at all below 44 °Celsius. Fervidobacterium godwanense habitat are volcanic marine or terrestrial hotsprings. This species can also live in man made places such as hot water storage tanks.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Andrews, K. T.; Patel, B. K. C. (1996). "Fervidobacterium gondwanense sp. nov., a New Thermophilic Anaerobic Bacterium Isolated from Nonvolcanically Heated Geothermal Waters of the Great Artesian Basin of Australia". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (1): 265–269. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-1-265. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 8573506.
  2. ^ ANDREWS, K. T.; PATEL, B. K. C. (1996). "Fervidobacterium gondwanense sp. nov., a New Thermophilic Anaerobic Bacterium Isolated from Nonvolcanically Heated Geothermal Waters of the Great Artesian Basin of Australia". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 46 (1): 265–269. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-1-265. ISSN 1466-5034.

Further reading

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  • Ravot, Gilles, et al. "L-Alanine production from glucose fermentation by hyperthermophilic members of the domains Bacteria and Archaea: a remnant of an ancestral metabolism?." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62.7 (1996): 2657–2659.
  • Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Vol. 7. Springer, 2006.
  • Andrews, K.T.; Patel, B.K.C.; Clarke, F.M. (October 1998). "FgoI, a type II restriction endonuclease from the thermoanaerobe Fervidobacterium gondwanense AB39T". Anaerobe. 4 (5): 227–232. doi:10.1006/anae.1998.0167. PMID 16887647.
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