Query: NC_017094:828836 Leptospirillum ferrooxidans C2-3, complete genome
Lineage: Leptospirillum ferrooxidans; Leptospirillum; Nitrospiraceae; Nitrospirales; Nitrospirae; Bacteria
General Information: An obligately chemolithotrophic Gram-negative iron-oxidizing bacterium Leptospirillum ferrooxidans C2-3 belonging to phylum Nitrospirae was isolated from fresh volcanic ash deposit in the island of Miyake, Japan.
Subject: NC_011026:1284966 Chloroherpeton thalassium ATCC 35110, complete genome
Lineage: Chloroherpeton thalassium; Chloroherpeton; Chlorobiaceae; Chlorobiales; Chlorobi; Bacteria
General Information: Chloroherpeton thalassium is a non-filamentous, flexing and gliding green sulfur bacterium isolated from marine sources off the North East coast of the USA in the 1980s. This organism is the most distant member of the green sulfur bacteria and is commonly found in aquatic microbial mats. Chloroherpeton thalassium is distinct from the other green sulfur bacteria in that it grows as a filamentous rod and is capable of gliding motility. Chloroherpeton thalassium is a photolithotroph, obtaining energy by anoxygenic photosynthesis using sulfide or sulfur as the electron donor. The photosynthetic apparatus consist of membrane-bound iron/sulfur reaction center associated with a light absorbing organelle, the chlorosome.