Query: NC_019978:875941 Halobacteroides halobius DSM 5150, complete genome
Lineage: Halobacteroides halobius; Halobacteroides; Halobacteroidaceae; Halanaerobiales; Firmicutes; Bacteria
General Information: Country: Israel; Isolation: Dead Sea sediment; Temp: Mesophile. This is an endospore-forming anaerobic halophilic 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.