Query: NC_011999:1633262 Macrococcus caseolyticus JCSC5402, complete genome
Lineage: Macrococcus caseolyticus; Macrococcus; Staphylococcaceae; Bacillales; Firmicutes; Bacteria
General Information: This methicillin-resistant strain was isolated from animal meat in a supermarket. This organism is a large gram positive coccus, related to the Staphylococcus, often associated meat and sheep, goat and cattle milk.
Subject: NC_002696:2829002 Caulobacter crescentus CB15, complete genome
Lineage: Caulobacter vibrioides; Caulobacter; Caulobacteraceae; Caulobacterales; Proteobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: Bacterium that undergoes asymmetric cell division and differentiation. Caulobacter vibroides, also known as Caulobacter crescentus, inhabits aquatic environments and plays an important part in biogeochemical cycling of organic nutrients. This bacterium undergoes an unusual developmental cycle in which a swarming motile cell becomes a stalked cell that is attached to a solid surface. The stalked cell then undergoes asymmetric cell division and produces one flagellated motile daughter cell and one stalked daughter cell. Thus, the asymmetric processes in this organism provide useful models for differentiation and development. This organism also contains a number of energy-dependent transport system, presumably enabling growth in the substrate-sparse aquatic environments that it lives in.