Complete genome sequence of Mahella australiensis type strain (50-1 BONT)

Johannes Sikorski, Hazuki Teshima, Matt Nolan, Susan Lucas, Nancy Hammon, Shweta Deshpande, Jan-Fang Cheng, Sam Pitluck, Konstantinos Liolios, Ioanna Pagani, Natalia Ivanova, Marcel Huntemann, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Galina Ovchinnikova, Amrita Pati, Roxanne Tapia, Cliff Han, Lynne Goodwin, Amy Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Miriam Land, Loren Hauser, Olivier Duplex Djao, Manfred Rohde, Rüdiger Pukall, Stefan Spring, Birte Abt, Markus Göker, John C. Detter, Tanja Woyke, James Bristow, Victor Markowitz, Philip Hugenholtz, Jonathan A. Eisen, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Hans-Peter Klenk, Alla Lapidus

Abstract


Mahella australiensis Bonilla Salinas et al. 2004 is the type species of the genus Mahella, which belongs to the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae. The species is of interest because it differs in its G+C content and phenotypes such as carbon source utililisation and relationship to temperature from the anaerobic spore-forming bacteria known so far. Moreover, it has been discussed that this species might be an indigenous member of petroleum and oil reservoirs. This is the first completed genome sequence of a member of the genus Mahella and the nineth completed type strain genome sequence from the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae. The 3,135,972 bp long genome with its 2,974 protein-coding and 59 RNA genes is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.

doi:10.4056/sigs.1864526


Keywords


strictly anaerobic, motile, spore-forming, Gram-positive, moderately thermophilic, chemoorganotrophic, Thermoanaerobacteraceae, GEBA

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We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of many members of the Genomic Standards Consortium, the broader genomic science community, and those who have indicated their willingness to serve as editors, reviewers and contributors.

Funding for SIGS is provided by a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University, the Michigan State University Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research DE-FG02-08ER64707.

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