Draft Genome Sequence of Limnospira sp. Strain BM01, Isolated from a Hypersaline Lake of the Momela Ecosystem in Tanzania

Reuben Maghembe; Angelina Michael; Ajith Harish; Stephen S Nyandoro; Sylvester L Lyantagaye; Rajni Hati-Kaul

doi:10.1128/MRA.00132-21

Draft Genome Sequence of Limnospira sp. Strain BM01, Isolated from a Hypersaline Lake of the Momela Ecosystem in Tanzania

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Apr 22;10(16):e00132-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00132-21.

Authors

Reuben Maghembe^{1

2}, Angelina Michael³, Ajith Harish⁴, Stephen S Nyandoro⁵, Sylvester L Lyantagaye⁶, Rajni Hati-Kaul⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
² Division of Biotechnology, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
³ Department of Biology, College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, University of Dodoma, Dodoma, Tanzania.
⁴ Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁵ Chemistry Department, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁶ Department of Biochemistry, Mbeya College of Health and Allied Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Mbeya Tanzania.
⁷ Division of Biotechnology, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden rajni.hatti-kaul@biotek.lu.se.

Abstract

The genus Limnospira includes cyanobacterial species used for industrial production of dietary supplements and nutraceutical agents. The metagenome-assembled genome of Limnospira sp. strain BM01 from Big Momela Lake, Tanzania, was 6,228,312 bp long with a GC content of 44.8% and carried 4,921 proteins and 52 RNA genes, including 6 rRNA genes.