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Ecophysiology of the Genus Shewanella

  • SECTION 3.3 Gamma Subclass
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The Prokaryotes

Introduction

The genus Shewanella is comprised of more than 20 species inhabiting a wide range of environments including spoiled food, oil field wastes, redox interfaces in marine and freshwater, cold waters and sediments of the deep sea, and mesophilic ones all around the planet. Much of the recent interest in the shewanellae stems from their almost notorious abilities in the area of anaerobic respiration; these bacteria appear to be able to use nearly any electron acceptor more electronegative than sulfate, including oxygen. However, the genus is much more than just a group of respiratory specialists, as will be discussed here.

As with many contemporary genera, the Shewanella have experienced a rocky road to their present status, as evidenced by the species S. putrefaciens. Originally isolated as an active agent in food spoilage (Derby and Hammer, 1932), this organism was first called “Achromobacter putrefaciens,” then Pseudomonas putrefaciens (Shewan et al., 1960), Alteromonas...

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    Martin Dworkin

  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

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    Erko Stackebrandt

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Nealson, K.H., Scott, J. (2006). Ecophysiology of the Genus Shewanella. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30746-X_45

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