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Bacterial | Desulfuromonas | Marine sediment | Gram-negative bacilli, obligate anaerobes, atrichic, c-cytochrome, symbiotic with Marinobacter [11] | Shewanella | Seawater, intertidal zone, marine sediment, marine organism, etc | Gram-negative bacilli, facultative anaerobic, single polar flagellum, optimal temperature 30 ℃, some of them symbiotic with Desulfovibrio, Brevibacillus and algae[12,13,14] | Geobacter | Marine sediment | Gram-negative bacilli, obligate anaerobes, optimal temperature 22 ℃, symbiotic with Shewanella, or interspecies symbiosis[15] | Rhodoferax | Bay sediment | Gram-negative bacilli, facultative anaerobic, single polar flagellum, optimal temperature 25 ℃, symbiotic with Azoarcus, Methanospirillum and Pseudomonas [16,17] | Deferribacter | Arabian Sea, off-shore oil facility, deep hydrothermal vents (east pacific rise and the mid-atlantic ridge) | Obligate anaerobes or facultative anaerobic, multi-electron acceptor, symbiotic with Epsilonproteobacteria [18,19,20,21] | Archaea | Hyperthermus | Deep hydrothermal zone | Obligate anaerobes, grow above 90 ℃, inactive under 80 ℃[22] | Geoglobus | Ashadze field | Only H2 as electron donor to reduce insoluble Fe(Ⅲ)[23] |
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