Query: NC_021184:1257722 Desulfotomaculum gibsoniae DSM 7213, complete genome
Lineage: Desulfotomaculum gibsoniae; Desulfotomaculum; Peptococcaceae; Clostridiales; Firmicutes; Bacteria
General Information: Country: Germany; Environment: Animal intestinal microflora, Fresh water; Isolation: freshwater mud; Temp: Mesophile; Temp: 37C. This organism is a sulfate-reducing spore forming Gram-positive bacterium which grows anaerobically with sulfate and sulfite as electron acceptors.
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.