Query: NC_014253:1010949 Methanohalobium evestigatum Z-7303 chromosome, complete genome
Lineage: Methanohalobium evestigatum; Methanohalobium; Methanosarcinaceae; Methanosarcinales; Euryarchaeota; Archaea
General Information: Isolation: Microbial mat community in Crimea, Russia; Country: Russia; Temp: Thermophile; Temp: 50C; Habitat: Fresh water; Isolation: mud from a salt lagoon. This is a species of extremely halophilic, methylotrophic, methanogenic, anaerobic bacteria.
Subject: NC_000909:762859 Methanocaldococcus jannaschii DSM 2661, complete genome
Lineage: Methanocaldococcus jannaschii; Methanocaldococcus; Methanocaldococcaceae; Methanococcales; Euryarchaeota; Archaea
General Information: Methane-producing thermophilic archeon. Isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the east Pacific Rise in 1982. This organism is an obligately anaerobic methane-producing archeon and was the first representative of the archaeal domain to be completely sequenced. The cells require a pH of 5.2-7 with 1.0-5.0% NaCl, optimal conditions are pH 6.0 and 3% NaCl. Fixes carbon dioxide to methane as its primary energy-producing biochemical pathway.