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Shewanella algae

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Kingdom
  
Bacteria

Order
  
Alteromonadales

Genus
  
Shewanella

Higher classification
  
Shewanella

Phylum
  
Proteobacteria

Family
  
Shewanellaceae

Scientific name
  
Shewanella algae

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Shewanella, Bacteria, Shewanella putrefaciens, Shewanella oneidensis, Geobacter metallireducens

Shewanella algae is a rod-shaped Gram-negative marine bacterium. S. algae is also a facultative anaerobe with the ability to reduce iron, uranium and plutonium metabolically. When no oxygen is available, it can use metal cations as the terminal electron acceptor in the electron transport chain.

S. algae is of great interest to the United States Department of Energy because of its ability to reduce the amount of radioactive waste in groundwater by making it less soluble. An example would be:


C 6 H 12 O 6 + 12 U 6 + + 6 H 2 O + 24 e 6 C O 2 + 12 U 4 + + 24 H + W a t e r   S o l u b l e W a t e r   I n s o l u b l e

References

Shewanella algae Wikipedia