| Name | Exercise 2 - Accession no. (nucleotide) |
| Coppersmith | DQ810290 |
| Dela Merced | U33536 |
| Griffin | U47108 |
| Holmes | AY247639 |
| Janumov | KC408876 |
| Landry | L11920 |
| Littwin | J04479 |
| Osman | AF193842 |
| Park | EU708319 |
| Quevedo Villanueva | AF038544 |
| Shaw | AF038541 |
| Shibkov | AF071212 |
| Stinson | AY247644 |
| Thompson | U86403 |
| Torres | FJ215762 |
| Bacterial species | Comments / Notes of interest |
| Acinetobacter calcoaceticus | Soil and water bacterium; source of hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections |
| Anoxybacillus sp. NB | Thermophile from Turkish hot spring |
| Bacillus stearothermophilus | Thermophile, source of Bst restriction enzymes and a DNA polymerase used for LAMP |
| Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus | Thermophile that can breakdown wood polymers like cellulose & lignin; produces hydrogen gas |
| Campylobacter jejuni | Common bacteria in animal intestines, source of food-borne illness (especially associated with poultry) |
| Geobacillus anatolicus | Hyperthermophile from Turkish hot spring (98°C) |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Causative agent of tuberculosis |
| Rhizobium leguminosarum | Nitrogen-fixing bacterium associated with legumes |
| Salmonella typhimurium | Major causative agent of human food-borne illness |
| Serpulina hyodysenteriae | (aka Brachyspira hyodysenteriae) Causative agent of swine dysentery |
| Staphylococcus aureus | Normal human microbiota; causative agent of skin infections and many life-threatening infections such as pneumonia, meningitis, toxic shock, sepsis |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | Common in human microbiota; causative agent of pneumonia especially in persons with weak immune systems |
| Thermococcus sp. 9°N-7 | Hyperthermophile from a submarine thermal vent (2,500 meters depth), near equator (9°N) at the East Pacific Rise |
| Thermomicrobium roseum | Rose-pink thermophile first isolated from Toadstool Spring in Yellowstone NP |
| Thermus thermophilus | Thermophile, first discovered in a Japanese hot spring |