Query: NC_016112:3840053 Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum chromosome, complete genome
Lineage: Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum; Methylomicrobium; Methylococcaceae; Methylococcales; Proteobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: Methanotroph, Ammonia oxidation, Thiosulfate oxidation. Haloalkaliphilic methanotrophic bacterium. Halotolerant, alkaliphilic, obligate methanotrophic, Gram-negative bacterium isolated from moderately saline soda lakes in Tuva (Central Asia)
Subject: NC_009879:860925 Rickettsia canadensis str. McKiel, complete genome
Lineage: Rickettsia canadensis; Rickettsia; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsiales; Proteobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: This organism was originally isolated from ticks in a field study on tick-transmitted diseases of small mammals in Canada. Member of the typhus group of Rickettsiales. Members of this genus, like other Rickettsial organisms such as Neorickettsia and Anaplasma, are obligate intracellular pathogens. In both groups, the bacteria are transmitted via an insect, usually a tick, to a host organism where they target endothelial cells and sometimes macrophages. They attach via an adhesin, rickettsial outer membrane protein A, and are internalized where they persist as cytoplasmically free organisms. Rickettsia canadensis was originally thought to be a member of the typhus group of Rickettsiales, however, it is now thought to represent a distict group with the rickettsia.