Query: NC_014160:43486 Thermosphaera aggregans DSM 11486 chromosome, complete genome Lineage: Thermosphaera aggregans; Thermosphaera; Desulfurococcaceae; Desulfurococcales; Crenarchaeota; Archaea General Information: Isolation: Hot spring from Obsidian Pool located in the Mud Volcano area of the Yellowstone National Park; Country: USA; Temp: Hyperthermophile; Temp: 85C; Habitat: Hot spring, Solfataric field. Thermosphaera aggregans is a hyperthermophilic archaeum isolated from terrestrial hot solfataric springs.
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General Information: Environment: Fresh water; Temp: Mesophile. This is the first cultured species of the proposed new genus "Desulfurispirillum", and the sequencing of its genome will expand the range of experimental approaches that researchers can use to characterize its metabolic pathways for energy production and understand how these pathways are regulated. This organism is notable for its ability to reduce selenate to selenite and further to insoluble elemental selenium, in a process called dissimilatory selenate reduction.