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Microbe
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Contact
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Genome size
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GC content
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Taxon
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Description
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Single Microbes
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Rubrobacter xylanophilus
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John Battista
Louisiana State
Univ.
jbattis@lsu.edu
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~2.6 Mb
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Actinobacteria
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Highly radioresistant; degrades hemicellulose, xylan;
thermophile.
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Prochlorococcus isolate NATL2A
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Sallie Chisholm
MIT
chisholm@mit.edu
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1.7 to 2.4 Mb
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Prokaryote
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Ocean carbon sequestration.
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Trichoderma reesei strain RUT-C30, ATCC56765
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Dan Cullen
USDA Forest Products Research Lab and Univ. of
Wisconsin
dcullen@facstaff.wisc.edu
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33 Mb
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Fungi
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Efficient cellulose-degrading organism.
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Kineococcus radiotolerans sp nov
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Carl Fliermans
Savannah River Site
carl.fliermans@srs.gov
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4.3 to 4.6 Mb
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Bacteria
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Highly radioresistant; degrades organic pollutants.
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Methylobacillus flagellatus, strain KT
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Mary Lidstrom
Univ. Washington
lidstrom@u.washington.edu
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3.1 Mb
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55%
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Proteobacteria
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Cycling of one-C compounds; bioremediation;
environmentally benign bioprocesses to use these
compounds as feedstocks.
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Synechococcus elongates PCC7 942
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Susan Golden
Texas A&M
sgolden@tamu.edu
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2.4 to 2.7 Mb
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Cyanobacteria
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Carbon fixation, photosynthesis in fresh waters.
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Ostreococcus
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Brian Palenik
UCSD
bpalenik@ucsd.edu
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8 to 10 Mb (est)
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Eukaryote
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Fast-growing, ubiquitous picoeukaryote, important in
marine carbon-fixation.
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Moorella thermoacetica ATCC39073
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Steven Ragsdale
Univ. Nebraska
sragsdale1@unl.edu
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TBD
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Bacteria
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Anaerobic fixation of CO2 via Wood-Ljungdahl
pathway; can grow on hydrogen, also carbon dioxide or
carbon monoxide as sole carbon sources; acetogenic.
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Emiliania huxleyi strain 1516
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Betsy Read and Tom Wahlund
California State Univ.
bread@csusm.edu
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~ 5 Mb
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Marine algae
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Marine coccolithophorid; role in global carbon cycling
and sulfur transformation.
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Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413
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Teresa Thiel
Univ. Missouri
thiel@umsl.edu
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7 to 10 Mb
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~41%
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Cyanobacteria
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Filamentous heterocyst-forming; fixes N and
CO2; produces hydrogen.
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Burkholderia complex (genomovar V)
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Jim Tiedje
Michigan State Univ.
tiedjej@pilot.msu.edu
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Bacteria
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(high draft)
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8 to 10 Mb (est)
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TCE degrader.
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-
B. vietnamiensis (rhizosphere colonizer)
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(low draft)
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8 to 10 Mb (est)
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Rice rhizosphere colonizer.
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-
B. vietnamiensis (CF strain)
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(low draft)
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8 to 10 Mb (est)
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CF strain.
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Phytophthera ramorum UCD Pr4
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Brett Tyler
Virginia Tech.
bmtyler@vt.edu
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24 to 40 Mb
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Fungi
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Stramenophiles (includes diatoms and brown algae);
pathogen of California oak.
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Phytophthora sojae P6497
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Brett Tyler
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62 to 90 Mb
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Fungi
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Stramenophiles (includes diatoms and brown algae);
soybean pathogen.
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Crocosphaera watsonii WH8501
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John Waterbury
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
jwaterbury@whoi.edu
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3.6 to 5 Mb
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40%
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Cyanobacteria
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Marine unicellular cyanobacterium; confined to waters
from 26 to 32ºC; temporally segregates
carbon-dioxide fixation from nitrogen fixation.
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Estimated total
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~200 Mb
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Microbial Consortia
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Acid mine drainage from site in Iron Mountain, Calif.
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Jill Banfield
UC Berkeley
jill@eps.berkeley.edu
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30 BACs (3 to 6 Mb)
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Bacteria
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Low diversity; very low pH; F. acidarmanus already
sequenced; environment well-characterized.
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Chlorochromatium aggregatum
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Don Bryant
Penn State Univ.
dab14@psu.edu
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2 to 10 Mb
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Green sulfur bacteria, plus epibiont
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Two-component culturable consortium, clusters at a 1:13
ratio; utilizes hydrogen, sulfide, sulfur, polysulfide,
sometimes thiosulfate as electron donors for carbon
fixation.
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Estimated total
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~15 Mb
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