Query: NC_004113:1026886 Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1, complete genome
Lineage: Thermosynechococcus elongatus; Thermosynechococcus; ; Chroococcales; Cyanobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: This is a uniquely thermophilic unicellular cyanobacteria that was isolated from Beppu hot spring in Japan. It is obligately photoautotrophic. Thermosynechococcus elongatus is a thermophilic cyanobacterium. This organism is readily transformable making it useful for molecular analyses.
Subject: NC_009925:1617414 Acaryochloris marina MBIC11017, complete genome
Lineage: Acaryochloris marina; Acaryochloris; ; Chroococcales; Cyanobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: Acaryochloris marina MBIC11017 was isolated from algae from the coast of the Palau Islands in the western Pacific. Marine cyanobacterium. Acaryochloris marina was first isolated as an epiphyte of algae. M. marina been isolated from a variety of habitats and locations, usually associated with algae but also as free-living organisms. This cyanobacterium produces an atypical photosynthetic pigment, chlorophyll d, as the major reactive agent. The oxygenic photosynthesis based on this pigment may have evolved as an acclimatization to far-red light environments, or an as intermediate between the red-absorbing oxygenic and the far-red-absorbing anoxygenic photosynthesis that uses bacteriochlorophylls. Because of the unusual ratio of chlorophyll a to chlorophyll d in this organism, it has been used as a model to study the spectrographic characteristics of the two pigments.