Whole-Genome Sequences of Two New Caballeronia Strains Isolated from Cryoturbated Peat Circles of the Permafrost-Affected Eastern European Tundra

Stefanie A Hetz; Anja Poehlein; Marcus A Horn

doi:10.1128/MRA.00731-20

Whole-Genome Sequences of Two New Caballeronia Strains Isolated from Cryoturbated Peat Circles of the Permafrost-Affected Eastern European Tundra

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jul 30;9(31):e00731-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00731-20.

Authors

Stefanie A Hetz^#¹, Anja Poehlein^#², Marcus A Horn³

Affiliations

¹ Soil Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
² Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
³ Soil Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany horn@ifmb.uni-hannover.de.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Annotated genomes of Caballeronia strains SBC1 and SBC2 from acidic permafrost suggest a new species with a facultative lifestyle via oxygen and nitrate respiration. Thus, a contribution to nitrogen cycling in cold and low-pH environments is anticipated.