Geoglobus
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{{Taxobox
| color = darkgray
| name = ''Ferroglobus''
| domain = [[Archaea]]
| phylum = [[Euryarchaeota]]
| classis = [[Archaeoglobi]]
| ordo = [[Archaeoglobales]]
| familia = [[Archaeoglobaceae]]
| genus = '''''Geoglobus'''''
| subdivision_ranks = [[species (biology)|Species]]
| subdivision =
* ''[[Geoglobus ahangari|G. ahangari]]''
| synonyms =
* ''Geoglobus Kashefi et al. 2002'' <br />
}}
''Geoglobus'' is a [[hyperthermophile|hyperthermophilic]] member of the [[Archaeoglobaceae]] within the [[Euryarchaeota]]. It consists of one species, ''G. ahangari'', isolated from the [[Guaymas Basin]] hydrothermal system located deep within the [[Gulf of California]]. As a [[hyperthermophile]], it grows best at a temperature of 88ºC and cannot grow at temperature below 65ºC or above 90ºC. It possess an [[S-layer]] cell wall and a single [[flagellum]]. ''G. ahangari'' is an [[anaerobe]], using poorly soluble [[iron|ferric iron]] (Fe<sup>3+</sub>) as a [[terminal electron acceptor]]. It can grow either [[autotrophic]]ally using [[hydrogen]] gas (H<sub>2</sub>) or heterotrophically using a large number of [[organic compound]]s, including several types of [[fatty acid]]s, as energy sources. ''G. ahangari'' was the first archaeon isolated capable of using [[hydrogen]] gas coupled to iron reduction as an energy source and the first [[anaerobe]] isolated capable of using long-chain [[fatty acid]]s as an energy source.
==References==
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==Further reading==
===Scientific journals===
* {{ cite journal | author = Kashefi K, Tor JM, Holmes DE, Gaw Van Praagh CV, Reysenbach AL and Lovley DR | date = 2002 | title = Geoglobus ahangari gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeon capable of oxidizing organic acids and growing autotrophically on hydrogen with Fe(III) serving as the sole electron accepter | journal = Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. | volume = 52 | pages = 719–728. | pmid = 12054231 | doi = 10.1099/ijs.0.01953-0}}
===Scientific books===
* {{ cite book | author = Huber H, Stetter KO | date = 2001 | chapter = Family I. Archaeoglobaceae fam. nov. Stetter 1989, 2216 | title = Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria | edition = 2nd ed. | editor = DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds. | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | isbn = 978-0387987712 }}
* {{ cite book | last = Stetter | first = KO | date = 1989 | chapter = Group II. Archaeobacterial sulfate reducers. Order Archaeoglobales | title = Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume 3 | edition = 1st ed. | editor = JT Staley, MP Bryant, N Pfennig, and JG Holt, eds. | publisher = The Williams & Wilkins Co. | location = Baltimore}}
===Scientific databases===
{{Taxonomic references|taxon=Geoglobus}}
==External links==
{{Taxonomic links|microbe=yes|NCBI_taxID=190818|taxoname=Geoglobus|LSPN_letter=g|LSPN_taxoname=geoglobus}}
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