Platform · Microbe catalog
The organisms that make electrochemistry biological
Curated field guides for the microbes that matter in microbial electrochemical systems — electrogens and electrotrophs, plus the acetogens, methanogens, fermenters and syntrophs they live with. Every value traces to a citation.
- Rod
Acetogen · Homoacetogen
Acetobacterium woodii
- EET
- —
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Rod
Electrotroph · Iron oxidizer
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 2
Partial - Multicellular filament
Cable bacterium · Bidirectional EET
Candidatus Electronema spp.
- EET
- bidirectional
- T opt
- 15 °C
- pH opt
- 7.5
Partial - Rod
Acetogen · Homoacetogen
Clostridium autoethanogenum DSM 10061
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 37 °C
- pH opt
- 5.8
Partial - Rod
Primary fermenter · Hydrolytic bacterium
Clostridium butyricum
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 37 °C
- pH opt
- 6.8
Partial - Rod
Electrotroph · Acetogen
Clostridium ljungdahlii
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 37 °C
- pH opt
- 6
Partial - Vibrio (curved rod)
Electrogen · Bidirectional EET
Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough
- EET
- bidirectional
- T opt
- 35 °C
- pH opt
- 7.2
Partial - Coccus
Electrogen · Primary fermenter
Enterococcus faecalis
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 37 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Comprehensive - Rod
Electrogen · Iron reducer
Geobacter anodireducens SD-1
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Rod
Electrogen · DIET partner donor
Geobacter metallireducens GS-15
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Comprehensive - Rod
Electrogen · Bidirectional EET
Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA
- EET
- bidirectional
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 6.8
Comprehensive - Coccus
Electrogen · Iron reducer
Geoglobus ahangari strain 234
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 88 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Stub - Rod
Electrotroph · Methanogen hydrogenotrophic
Methanobacterium sp. strain YSL
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 35 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Stub - Coccus
Methanogen hydrogenotrophic · Electrotroph
Methanococcus maripaludis S2
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 37 °C
- pH opt
- 6.9
Partial - Sarcina packets
Methanogen acetoclastic · Methanogen methylotrophic
Methanosarcina acetivorans
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 35 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Sarcina packets
Methanogen acetoclastic · Methanogen hydrogenotrophic
Methanosarcina barkeri Fusaro
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 35 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Multicellular filament
Methanogen acetoclastic · DIET partner acceptor
Methanothrix harundinacea
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 35 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Rod
Electrotroph · Acetogen
Moorella thermoacetica
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 55 °C
- pH opt
- 6.8
Partial - Rod
Electrogen · Denitrifier
Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 37 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Rod
Electrogen · Iron reducer
Rhodoferax ferrireducens T118
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 25 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Rod
Electrogen · Photoheterotroph
Rhodopseudomonas palustris DX-1
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Rod
Electrogen · Bidirectional EET
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
- EET
- bidirectional
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Comprehensive - Rod
Electrogen · Iron reducer
Shewanella oneidensis MR-4
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Rod
Electrogen · Iron reducer
Shewanella putrefaciens
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 25 °C
- pH opt
- 7
Partial - Rod
Electrotroph · Acetogen
Sporomusa ovata
- EET
- inward
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 6.8
Comprehensive - Coccus
Photoautotroph oxygenic · Electrogen
Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
- EET
- outward
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 8
Partial - Rod
Syntrophic H₂ producer · Syntrophic formate producer
Syntrophomonas wolfei
- EET
- —
- T opt
- 35 °C
- pH opt
- 7.2
Partial - Rod
Denitrifier · Aromatic degrader
Thauera sp. MZ1T
- EET
- —
- T opt
- 30 °C
- pH opt
- 7.5
Stub