Draft Genome Sequence of Strain R_RK_3, an Iron-Depositing Isolate of the Genus Rhodomicrobium, Isolated from a Dewatering Well of an Opencast Mine

Burga Braun; Sven Künzel; Josephin Schröder; Ulrich Szewzyk

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00864-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Strain R_RK_3, an Iron-Depositing Isolate of the Genus Rhodomicrobium, Isolated from a Dewatering Well of an Opencast Mine

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 24;5(34):e00864-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00864-17.

Authors

Burga Braun¹, Sven Künzel², Josephin Schröder³, Ulrich Szewzyk³

Affiliations

¹ Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Environmental Microbiology, Berlin, Germany burga.braun@tu-berlin.de.
² Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.
³ Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Environmental Microbiology, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

Rhodomicrobium sp. strain R_RK_3 is an iron-depositing bacterium from which we report the draft genome. This strain was isolated from ochrous depositions of a mining well pump in Germany. The Illumina NextSeq technique was used to sequence the genome of the strain.