PMC:3569359 / 149-509 JSONTXT

{"project":"MicrobeTaxon","denotations":[{"id":"T1","span":{"begin":12,"end":32},"obj":"751945"},{"id":"T2","span":{"begin":37,"end":63},"obj":"798128"}],"namespaces":[{"prefix":"_base","uri":"http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/NCBITAXON/"}],"text":"The strains Thermus oshimai JL-2 and Thermus thermophilus JL-18 each have a circular chromosome, 2.07 Mb and 1.9 Mb in size, respectively, and each has two plasmids ranging from 0.27 Mb to 57.2 kb. The megaplasmid of each strain contains a gene cluster for the reduction of nitrate to nitrous oxide, consistent with their incomplete denitrification phenotypes."}