Query: NC_015873:450593 Megasphaera elsdenii DSM 20460, complete genome
Lineage: Megasphaera elsdenii; Megasphaera; Veillonellaceae; Selenomonadales; Firmicutes; Bacteria
General Information: Isolation: rumen of sheep. Human and animal pathogen. Gram-negative ruminal bacterium.
Subject: NC_014836:1180454 Desulfurispirillum indicum S5 chromosome, complete genome
Lineage: Desulfurispirillum indicum; Desulfurispirillum; Chrysiogenaceae; Chrysiogenales; Chrysiogenetes; Bacteria
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.