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Genome sequence of the photoarsenotrophic bacterium Ectothiorhodospira sp. strain BSL-9, isolated from a hypersaline alkaline arsenic-rich extreme environment.

Authors: Hernandez-Maldonado, Jaime and Stoneburner, Brendon and Boren, Alison and Miller, Laurence and Rosen, Michael and Oremland, Ronald S and Saltikov, Chad W

The full genome sequence of Ectothiorhodospira sp. strain BSL-9 is reported here. This purple sulfur bacterium encodes an arxA-type arsenite oxidase within the arxB2AB1CD gene island and is capable of carrying out "photoarsenotrophy" anoxygenic photosynthetic arsenite oxidation. Its genome is composed of 3.5 Mb and has approximately 63% G+C content. Copyright © 2016 Hernandez-Maldonado et al.

Journal: Genome announcements
DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.01139-16
Year: 2016

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