Query: NC_014734:2285762 Paludibacter propionicigenes WB4 chromosome, complete genome
Lineage: Paludibacter propionicigenes; Paludibacter; Porphyromonadaceae; Bacteroidales; Bacteroidetes; Bacteria
General Information: Country: Japan; Environment: Soil; Isolation: Rice plant residue in anoxic rice-field soil; Temp: Mesophile. This is a strictly anaerobic, propionate-producing bacterial species isolated from rice plant residue in anoxic rice-field soil in Japan.
Subject: NC_002696:2829002 Caulobacter crescentus CB15, complete genome
Lineage: Caulobacter vibrioides; Caulobacter; Caulobacteraceae; Caulobacterales; Proteobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: Bacterium that undergoes asymmetric cell division and differentiation. Caulobacter vibroides, also known as Caulobacter crescentus, inhabits aquatic environments and plays an important part in biogeochemical cycling of organic nutrients. This bacterium undergoes an unusual developmental cycle in which a swarming motile cell becomes a stalked cell that is attached to a solid surface. The stalked cell then undergoes asymmetric cell division and produces one flagellated motile daughter cell and one stalked daughter cell. Thus, the asymmetric processes in this organism provide useful models for differentiation and development. This organism also contains a number of energy-dependent transport system, presumably enabling growth in the substrate-sparse aquatic environments that it lives in.