Black Yeast Genomes Assembled from Plastic Fabric Metagenomes Reveal an Abundance of Hydrocarbon Degradation Genes

Osman Radwan; Oscar N Ruiz

doi:10.1128/MRA.01459-20

Black Yeast Genomes Assembled from Plastic Fabric Metagenomes Reveal an Abundance of Hydrocarbon Degradation Genes

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Apr 8;10(14):e01459-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01459-20.

Authors

Osman Radwan¹, Oscar N Ruiz²

Affiliations

¹ Environmental Microbiology Group, University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
² Fuels and Energy Branch, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA oscar.ruiz@us.af.mil.

Abstract

We report the assembly and annotation of 10 different black yeast genomes from microbiome metagenomic data derived from biofouled plastic fabrics. The draft genomes are estimated to be 9 to 33.2 Mb, with 357 to 5,108 contigs and G+C contents of 43.9% to 57.4%, and they harbor multiple genes for hydrocarbon adaptation and degradation.