So I was puttering around with my research today (Linux is all fixed, btw--Dr.J never changed the privacy settings in my files, so while I could see them, I couldn't access them), and found something exciting. AKA really nerdy and boring if you're not into microbio.
One of the proteins for which I was annotating a phylogeny, I noticed a huge group of the phyla Alphaproteobacteria were all of the same two genera: Rhodobacter and Rhodopseudomonas.While their proteins weren't directly related to the one I was working on--as noted by how the structure of my tree was shaping up to be--it was interesting that they were all of these two genera. You see, these two, as well as other Alphaproteobacteria whose genus name starts with Rhodo, are bacteria that reduce Hydrogen Sulfide to elemental Sulfur in metabolism. So I started going through my notes from when I took Microbial Diversity (so glad I ended up saving those) and found out some more information, though not enough. I'm going to have to search through the Journal of Bacteriology's archives or something.
I'm excited to present these results on Friday. I don't know what it means yet, but it's exciting.
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