Genome sequence of the dark pink pigmented Listia bainesii microsymbiont Methylobacterium sp. WSM2598.

Authors: Ardley, Julie and Tian, Rui and Howieson, John and Yates, Ron and Bräu, Lambert and Han, James and Lobos, Elizabeth and Huntemann, Marcel and Chen, Amy and Mavromatis, Konstantinos and Markowitz, Victor and Ivanova, Natalia and Pati, Amrita and Goodwin, Lynne and Woyke, Tanja and Kyrpides, Nikos and Reeve, Wayne

Strains of a pink-pigmented Methylobacterium sp. are effective nitrogen- (N2) fixing microsymbionts of species of the African crotalarioid genus Listia. Strain WSM2598 is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod isolated in 2002 from a Listia bainesii root nodule collected at Estcourt Research Station in South Africa. Here we describe the features of Methylobacterium sp. WSM2598, together with information and annotation of a high-quality draft genome sequence. The 7,669,765 bp draft genome is arranged in 5 scaffolds of 83 contigs, contains 7,236 protein-coding genes and 18 RNA-only encoding genes. This rhizobial genome is one of 100 sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute 2010 G enomic E ncyclopedia for B acteria and A rchaea- R oot N odule B acteria (GEBA-RNB) project.

Journal: Standards in genomic sciences
DOI: 10.1186/1944-3277-9-5
Year: 2014

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