Complete Genome Sequence of a Coastal Cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. Strain NIES-970

Yohei Shimura; Yuu Hirose; Naomi Misawa; Sachiko Wakazuki; Takatomo Fujisawa; Yasukazu Nakamura; Yu Kanesaki; Haruyo Yamaguchi; Masanobu Kawachi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00139-17

Complete Genome Sequence of a Coastal Cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. Strain NIES-970

Genome Announc. 2017 Apr 6;5(14):e00139-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00139-17.

Authors

Yohei Shimura¹, Yuu Hirose^{2

3}, Naomi Misawa², Sachiko Wakazuki³, Takatomo Fujisawa⁴, Yasukazu Nakamura⁴, Yu Kanesaki⁵, Haruyo Yamaguchi⁶, Masanobu Kawachi⁶

Affiliations

¹ Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan shimura.yohei@nies.go.jp.
² Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan.
³ Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan.
⁴ Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan.
⁵ NODAI Genome Research Center, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan.
⁶ Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Abstract

Members of the cyanobacterial genus Synechococcus are abundant in marine environments. To better understand the genomic diversity of marine Synechococcus spp., we determined the complete genome sequence of a coastal cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. NIES-970. The genome had a size of 3.1 Mb, consisting of one chromosome and four plasmids.