Draft Genome Sequences of " Candidatus Synechococcus spongiarum," Cyanobacterial Symbionts of the Mediterranean Sponge Aplysina aerophoba

Beate M Slaby; Ute Hentschel

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00268-17

Draft Genome Sequences of " Candidatus Synechococcus spongiarum," Cyanobacterial Symbionts of the Mediterranean Sponge Aplysina aerophoba

Genome Announc. 2017 Apr 27;5(17):e00268-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00268-17.

Authors

Beate M Slaby^{1

2}, Ute Hentschel^{3

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Botany II, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany bslaby@geomar.de.
² RD3 Marine Microbiology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
³ Department of Botany II, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
⁴ Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.

Abstract

We report here four draft genome sequences belonging to clade F of the cyanobacterium "Candidatus Synechococcus spongiarum" of the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba, which were collected from two nearby locations in the northern Adriatic Sea. The sequences provide the basis for within-clade comparisons between members of this widespread group of cyanobacterial sponge symbionts.