Query: NC_014961:50814 Desulfurococcus mucosus DSM 2162 chromosome, complete genome
Lineage: Desulfurococcus mucosus; Desulfurococcus; Desulfurococcaceae; Desulfurococcales; Crenarchaeota; Archaea
General Information: Country: Iceland; Environment: Fresh water, Sulfur spring; Isolation: Hot solfataric spring; Temp: Hyperthermophile; Temp: 85C. This is a hyperthermophilic anaerobic archaeon.
Subject: NC_014836:155924 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.