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Acidobacterium capsulatum was discovered in 1991 as the first species of the phylum Acidobacteria. It is a bacterium found in soils with an uncanny ability to withstand extremely polluted and low pH environments. It is ubiquitous in soil and aquatic environments, suggesting that A. capsulatum serves an important role in these ecosystems. Interestingly the annotated genome of A. capsulatum suggests that the organism is missing aldolase, an enzyme known...