Escherichia coli causing infection outside the gastrointestinal system are referred to as extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli. Avian pathogenic E. coli is a subgroup of extra-intestinal p...
Authors: Steffen L. Jørgensen, Egle Kudirkiene, Lili Li, Jens P. Christensen, John E. Olsen, Lisa Nolan and Rikke H. Olsen
The genus Porphyrobacter belongs to aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria cluster. Porphyrobacter neustonensis DSM 9434 was isolated from a eutrophic freshwater pond in Australia, and is able to synthesize Bac...
Authors: Qian Liu, Yue-Hong Wu, Hong Cheng, Lin Xu, Chun-Sheng Wang and Xue-Wei Xu
Chryseobacterium bovis DSM 19482T (Hantsis-Zacharov et al., Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:1024-1028, 2008) is a Gram-negative, rod shaped, non-motile, facultative anaerobe, chemoorganotrop...
Authors: Sivan Laviad-Shitrit, Markus Göker, Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, Manoj Pillay, Krishnaveni Palaniappan, Neha Varghese, Natalia Mikhailova, Dimitrios Stamatis, T. B. K. Reddy, Chris Daum, Nicole Shapiro, Victor Markowitz, Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke, Hans-Peter Klenk…
A nonmotile, Gram-positive bacterium that shows an elongated and branching cell shape was isolated from soil samples from the botanical garden of Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. Here, the isolation procedure, id...
Authors: Vanessa Jag, Anja Poehlein, Frank R. Bengelsdorf, Rolf Daniel and Peter Dürre
Ralstonia solanacearum is an extremely destructive pathogen able to cause disease in a wide range of host plants. Here we report the draft genome sequences of the strains FJAT-91, FJAT-45...
Authors: Yidan Sun, Keke Wang, Carlos Caceres-Moreno, Wei Jia, Aojun Chen, Heng Zhang, Renyi Liu and Alberto P. Macho
Strain Ola 51T (=LMG 24251T = CGMCC 1.7012T) is the type strain of the species Kosakonia oryzae and was isolated from surface-sterilized roots of the wild rice species Oryza latifolia grown in Guangdong, China. H...
Authors: Yuanyuan Li, Shuying Li, Mingyue Chen, Guixiang Peng, Zhiyuan Tan and Qianli An
The PacBio RS II provides for single molecule, real-time DNA technology to sequence genomes and detect DNA modifications. The starting point for high-quality sequence production is high molecular weight genomi...
Authors: Nguyet Kong, Whitney Ng, Kao Thao, Regina Agulto, Allison Weis, Kristi Spittle Kim, Jonas Korlach, Luke Hickey, Lenore Kelly, Stephen Lappin and Bart C. Weimer
Bradyrhizobium elkanii USDA 76T (INSCD = ARAG00000000), the type strain for Bradyrhizobium elkanii, is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that was isolated from an e...
Authors: Wayne Reeve, Peter van Berkum, Julie Ardley, Rui Tian, Margaret Gollagher, Dora Marinova, Patrick Elia, T. B. K. Reddy, Manoj Pillay, Neha Varghese, Rekha Seshadri, Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke, Mohamed N. Baeshen, Nabih A. Baeshen and Nikos Kyrpides
Natrinema altunense strain AJ2T, a halophilic archaeal strain, was isolated from a high-altitude (3884 m) salt lake in Xinjiang, China. This strain requires at least 1.7 M NaCl to grow an...
Authors: Hong Cheng, Ying-Yi Huo, Jing Hu, Xue-Wei Xu and Min Wu
Anaerobium acetethylicum strain GluBS11T belongs to the family Lachnospiraceae within the order Clostridiales. It is a Gram-positive, non-motile and strictly anaerobic bacterium isolated ...
Authors: Yogita Patil, Nicolai Müller, Bernhard Schink, William B. Whitman, Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, Manoj Pillay, Krishnaveni Palaniappan, Neha Varghese, Natalia Mikhailova, Dimitrios Stamatis, T. B. K. Reddy, Chris Daum, Nicole Shapiro, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos Kyrpides…
Hexavalent Chromium [Cr(VI)] is a widespread contaminant found in soil, sediment, and ground water in several DOE sites, including Hanford 100 H area. In order to stimulate microbially mediated reduction of Cr...
Authors: Romy Chakraborty, Hannah Woo, Paramvir Dehal, Robert Walker, Marcin Zemla, Manfred Auer, Lynne A. Goodwin, Alexey Kazakov, Pavel Novichkov, Adam P. Arkin and Terry C. Hazen
Thermus brockianus strain GE-1 is a thermophilic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium that was isolated from the Geysir geothermal area, Iceland. Like other thermophiles, T...
Authors: Christian Schäfers, Saskia Blank, Sigrid Wiebusch, Skander Elleuche and Garabed Antranikian
Jiangella gansuensis strain YIM 002T is the type strain of the type species of the genus Jiangella, which is at the present time composed of five species, and was isolated from desert soi...
Authors: Jian-Yu Jiao, Lorena Carro, Lan Liu, Xiao-Yang Gao, Xiao-Tong Zhang, Wael N. Hozzein, Alla Lapidus, Marcel Huntemann, T. B. K. Reddy, Neha Varghese, Michalis Hadjithomas, Natalia N. Ivanova, Markus Göker, Manoj Pillay, Jonathan A. Eisen, Tanja Woyke…
Pseudoalteromonas phage vB_PspS-H40/1 is a lytic phage that infects Pseudoalteromonas sp. strain H40. Both, the phage and its host were isolated in the 1970s from seawater samples collect...
Authors: René Kallies, Bärbel Kiesel, Matthias Schmidt, Johannes Kacza, Nawras Ghanem, Anja Narr, Jakob Zopfi, Lukas Y. Wick, Jörg Hackermüller, Hauke Harms and Antonis Chatzinotas
The article provides an overview of the genomic features of Lactobacillus fermentum strain 3872. The genomic sequence reported here is one of three L. fermentum genome sequences completed to date. Comparative gen...
Authors: Burhan Lehri, Alan M. Seddon and Andrey V. Karlyshev
Streptococcus thermophilus ACA-DC 2 is a newly sequenced strain isolated from traditional Greek yogurt. Among the 14 fully sequenced strains of S. thermophilus currently deposited in the ...
Authors: Voula Alexandraki, Maria Kazou, Jochen Blom, Bruno Pot, Effie Tsakalidou and Konstantinos Papadimitriou
We report here the draft genome sequences of eight bacterial strains of the genera Staphylococcus, Microbacterium, Mycobacterium, Plantibacter, and Pseudomonas. These isolates were obtained from aerosol sampling ...
Authors: Despoina S. Lymperopoulou, David A. Coil, Denise Schichnes, Steven E. Lindow, Guillaume Jospin, Jonathan A. Eisen and Rachel I. Adams
The genomes of four strains (MB11, MB14, MB30, and MB66) of the species Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis biovar equi were sequenced on the Ion Torrent PGM platform, completely assembled, and their gene content ...
Authors: Rafael A. Baraúna, Rommel T. J. Ramos, Adonney A. O. Veras, Pablo H. C. G. de Sá, Luís C. Guimarães, Diego A. das Graças, Adriana R. Carneiro, Judy M. Edman, Sharon J. Spier, Vasco Azevedo and Artur Silva
Probiotic Lactobacillus species offer various health benefits, thus have been employed in treatment and prevention of various diseases. Due to the differences in the isolation source and the site of action, most ...
Authors: Mangesh V. Suryavanshi, Dhiraj Paul, Swapnil P. Doijad, Shrikant S. Bhute, Tejashri B. Hingamire, Rahul P. Gune and Yogesh S. Shouche
Rhizobium aethiopicum sp. nov. is a newly proposed species within the genus Rhizobium. This species includes six rhizobial strains; which were isolated from root nodules of the legume pla...
Authors: Aregu Amsalu Aserse, Tanja Woyke, Nikos C. Kyrpides, William B. Whitman and Kristina Lindström
Flammeovirga sp. SJP92 is a Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped, non-motile and non-flagellated strain that belongs to the family Flammeovirgaceae of the class Cytophagia. The strain was i...
Yangia sp. CCB-MM3 was one of several halophilic bacteria isolated from soil sediment in the estuarine Matang Mangrove, Malaysia. So far, no member from the genus Yangia, a member of the
Authors: Nyok-Sean Lau, Ka-Kei Sam and Abdullah Al-Ashraf Amirul
Arthrobacter sp. B6 is a Gram-positive, non-motile, facultative aerobic bacterium, isolated from the arsenic-contaminated aquifer sediment in the Datong basin, China. This strain displays...
Authors: Linghua Xu, Wanxia Shi, Xian-Chun Zeng, Ye Yang, Lingli Zhou, Yao Mu and Yichen Liu
Thiobacillus thioparus DSM 505T is one of first two isolated strains of inorganic sulfur-oxidising Bacteria. The original strain of T. thioparus was lost almost 100 years ago and the work...
Authors: Lee P. Hutt, Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, Manoj Pillay, Krishnaveni Palaniappan, Neha Varghese, Natalia Mikhailova, Dimitrios Stamatis, Tatiparthi Reddy, Chris Daum, Nicole Shapiro, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke and Rich Boden
Here we report three complete bacterial genome assemblies from a PacBio shotgun metagenome of a co-culture from Upper Klamath Lake, OR. Genome annotations and culture conditions indicate these bacteria are dep...
Authors: Connor B. Driscoll, Timothy G. Otten, Nathan M. Brown and Theo W. Dreher
Strain S3-2T, isolated from sediment of a frozen freshwater pond, shares 99% 16S rRNA gene sequence identity with strains of the genus Janthinobacterium. Strain S3-2T is a facultative anaerobe that lacks the abil...
Authors: Xianzhe Gong, Stig Skrivergaard, Benjamin Smed Korsgaard, Lars Schreiber, Ian P. G. Marshall, Kai Finster and Andreas Schramm
Rhizobium mesoamericanum STM6155 (INSCD = ATYY01000000) is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that can exist as a soil saprophyte or as an effective nitrogen fixing ...
Authors: Agnieszka Klonowska, Aline López-López, Lionel Moulin, Julie Ardley, Margaret Gollagher, Dora Marinova, Rui Tian, Marcel Huntemann, T.B.K. Reddy, Neha Varghese, Tanja Woyke, Victor Markowitz, Natalia Ivanova, Rekha Seshadri, Mohamed N. Baeshen, Nabih A. Baeshen…
Pseudomonas brassicacearum strain L13-6-12 is a rhizosphere colonizer of potato, lettuce and sugar beet. Previous studies have shown that this motile, Gram-negative, non-sporulating bacte...
Authors: Christin Zachow, Henry Müller, Jana Monk and Gabriele Berg
Lutibacter profundi LP1T within the family Flavobacteriaceae was isolated from a biofilm growing on the surface of a black smoker chimney at the Loki’s Castle vent field, located on the A...
Authors: Juliane Wissuwa, Sven Le Moine Bauer, Ida Helene Steen and Runar Stokke
Nakamurella lactea DLS-10T, isolated from rock in Korea, is one of the four type strains of the genus Nakamurella. In this study, we describe the high quality dra...
Authors: Imen Nouioui, Markus Göker, Lorena Carro, Maria del Carmen Montero-Calasanz, Manfred Rohde, Tanja Woyke, Nikos C. Kyrpides and Hans-Peter Klenk
Kosmotoga pacifica strain SLHLJ1T is a thermophilic chemoorganoheterotrophic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal sediment. It belongs to the physiologically homogeneous Thermo...
Agromyces aureus AR33T is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped and motile bacterium belonging to the Microbacteriaceae family in the phylum Actinobacteria that was isolated from a former zinc/lead...
Authors: Erika Corretto, Livio Antonielli, Angela Sessitsch, Stéphane Compant, Christoph Höfer, Markus Puschenreiter and Günter Brader
Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis is one of the most common causes of Salmonellosis worldwide. Utilization of bacteriophages as prophylactic agents is a practical solution to preven...
Authors: Javier Santander, Jose I. Vasquez, Cristopher Segovia, Leonardo Santos, Gabriel Turra, Karen Huber and James Robeson
Actinoalloteichus hymeniacidonis HPA 177T is a Gram-positive, strictly aerobic, black pigment producing and spore-forming actinomycete, which forms branching vegetative hyphae and was iso...
Authors: Lena Schaffert, Andreas Albersmeier, Anika Winkler, Jörn Kalinowski, Sergey B. Zotchev and Christian Rückert
Oligoflexus tunisiensis Shr3T is the first strain described in the newest (eighth) class Oligoflexia of the phylum Proteobacteria. This strain was isolated from the 0.2-μm filtrate of a s...
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant foodborne bacteria is a global health problem that requires immediate attention. Bacteriophages are a promising biotechnological alternative approach against bacterial pat...
Authors: Luis Amarillas, Cristobal Chaidez, Arturo González-Robles and Josefina León-Félix
Chlorinated solvent contamination of potable water supplies is a serious problem worldwide. Biostimulation protocols can successfully remediate chlorinated solvent contamination through enhanced reductive dech...
Authors: Rebecca A. Reiss, Peter Guerra and Oleg Makhnin
Several species of the genus Dickeya provoke soft rot and blackleg diseases on a wide range of plants and crops. Dickeya solani has been identified as the causative agent of diseases outbreaks on potato culture i...
Authors: Slimane Khayi, Pauline Blin, Teik Min Chong, Kok-Gan Chan and Denis Faure
Pseudomonas jessenii C2 and Pseudomonas jessenii H16 were isolated from low-Cu and high-Cu industrially contaminated soil, respectively. P. jessenii H16 displayed significant resistance t...
Authors: Yanan Qin, Dan Wang, Kristian K. Brandt and Christopher Rensing
Streptomyces sp. TP-A0867 (=NBRC 109436) produces structurally complex polyketides designated alchivemycins A and B. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of this strain together with...
Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Micromonospora sp. DSW705 (=NBRC 110037), a producer of antitumor cyclic depsipeptides rakicidins A and B, together with the features of this strain and generation, an...
Streptomyces sp. MWW064 (=NBRC 110611) produces an antitumor cyclic depsipeptide rakicidin D. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of this strain together with features of the organi...
Prochlorothrix hollandica is filamentous non-heterocystous cyanobacterium which possesses the chlorophyll a/b light-harvesting complexes. Despite the growing interest in unusual green-pig...
Authors: Natalia Velichko, Mikhail Rayko, Ekaterina Chernyaeva, Alla Lapidus and Alexander Pinevich
The marine alphaproteobacterium strain O3.65 was isolated from an enrichment culture of surface seawater contaminated with weathered oil (slicks) from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill and belongs to the u...
Authors: Helge-Ansgar Giebel, Franziska Klotz, Sonja Voget, Anja Poehlein, Katrin Grosser, Andreas Teske and Thorsten Brinkhoff
Methanoculleus bourgensis strain MAB1 has been identified as the hydrogenotrophic partner of mesophilic acetate-oxidising bacteria, a syntrophic relationship operating close to the thermo...
Authors: Shahid Manzoor, Anna Schnürer, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff and Bettina Müller
The genus Escherichia includes pathogens and commensals. Bladder infections (cystitis) result most often from colonization of the bladder by uropathogenic E. coli strains. In contrast, a poorly defined condition ...
Authors: Travis K. Price, Arya Mehrtash, Laurynas Kalesinskas, Kema Malki, Evann E. Hilt, Catherine Putonti and Alan J. Wolfe
Here we introduce a MIxS extension to facilitate the recording and cataloguing of metadata from samples related to hydrocarbon resources. The proposed MIxS-HCR package incorporates the core features of the MIx...
Authors: Nicolas Tsesmetzis, Pelin Yilmaz, Peter C. Marks, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Ian M. Head and Bart P. Lomans
A new plant commensal Pseudomonas veronii isolate (strain R4) was identified from a Xiphinema index biocontrol screen. Isolated from grapevine roots from vineyards in central Chile, the strain R4 exhibited a slow...
Authors: Christian Montes, Fabiola Altimira, Hayron Canchignia, Álvaro Castro, Evelyn Sánchez, María Miccono, Eduardo Tapia, Álvaro Sequeida, Jorge Valdés, Paz Tapia, Carolina González and Humberto Prieto
Thermithiobacillus tepidarius DSM 3134T was originally isolated (1983) from the waters of a sulfidic spring entering the Roman Baths (Temple of Sulis-Minerva) at Bath, United Kingdom and ...
Authors: Rich Boden, Lee P. Hutt, Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, Manoj Pillay, Krishnaveni Palaniappan, Neha Varghese, Natalia Mikhailova, Dimitrios Stamatis, Tatiparthi Reddy, Chew Yee Ngan, Chris Daum, Nicole Shapiro, Victor Markowitz, Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke…
