Draft Genome Sequence of " Candidatus Spirobacillus cienkowskii," a Pathogen of Freshwater Daphnia Species, Reconstructed from Hemolymph Metagenomic Reads

Luana Bresciani; Leandro N Lemos; Nina Wale; Jonathan Y Lin; Alexander T Strauss; Meghan A Duffy; Jorge L M Rodrigues

doi:10.1128/MRA.01175-18

Draft Genome Sequence of " Candidatus Spirobacillus cienkowskii," a Pathogen of Freshwater Daphnia Species, Reconstructed from Hemolymph Metagenomic Reads

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2018 Dec 6;7(22):e01175-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01175-18. eCollection 2018 Dec.

Authors

Luana Bresciani^{1

2}, Leandro N Lemos³, Nina Wale⁴, Jonathan Y Lin², Alexander T Strauss⁵, Meghan A Duffy⁴, Jorge L M Rodrigues^{2

6}

Affiliations

¹ Soil Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Soil Science, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
³ Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
⁶ Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.

Abstract

We report here the near-complete genome sequence of "Candidatus Spirobacillus cienkowskii," a spiral-shaped, red-pigmented uncultivated bacterial pathogen of Daphnia spp. The genome is 2.74 Mbp in size, has a GC content of 32.1%, and contains genes associated with bacterial motility and the production of carotenoids, which could explain the distinctive red color of hosts infected with this pathogen.