Query: NC_007908:1108494 Rhodoferax ferrireducens T118, complete genome
Lineage: Rhodoferax ferrireducens; Rhodoferax; Comamonadaceae; Burkholderiales; Proteobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: Isolated from aquifer sediment collected at a depth of 18 feet. Electricity-generating, iron-reducing bacterium. This organism is able to generate electricity in microbial fuel cells.
Subject: NC_005125:2366778 Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421, complete genome
Lineage: Gloeobacter violaceus; Gloeobacter; ; Gloeobacterales; Cyanobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: This organism was isolated from a calcereous (chalky) rock in Switzerland. Photosynthetic bacterium. This organism is an obligate photoautotroph that lacks thylakoid membranes and probably has its photosynthetic machinery in the cytoplasmic membrane with various components exposed to the periplasm whereas in other cyanobacteria the components are situated in the thylakoid membrane and are exposed to the cytoplasm. This unusual arrangement may be due to the lack of various fatty acids that are found in the thylakoid membrane in other cyanobacteria. It has been predicted that this organism was one of the earliest to diverge from the cyanobacterial line.