Genome Sequence of Halomonas sp. Strain A3H3, Isolated from Arsenic-Rich Marine Sediments

Sandrine Koechler; Frédéric Plewniak; Valérie Barbe; Fabienne Battaglia-Brunet; Bernard Jost; Catherine Joulian; Muriel Philipps; Serge Vicaire; Stéphanie Vincent; Tao Ye; Philippe N Bertin

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00819-13

Genome Sequence of Halomonas sp. Strain A3H3, Isolated from Arsenic-Rich Marine Sediments

Genome Announc. 2013 Oct 10;1(5):e00819-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00819-13.

Authors

Sandrine Koechler¹, Frédéric Plewniak, Valérie Barbe, Fabienne Battaglia-Brunet, Bernard Jost, Catherine Joulian, Muriel Philipps, Serge Vicaire, Stéphanie Vincent, Tao Ye, Philippe N Bertin

Affiliation

¹ UMR7156 Université de Strasbourg/CNRS, Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique, Microbiologie, Département Micro-organismes, Genome, Environnement, Strasbourg, France.

Abstract

We report the genome sequence of Halomonas sp. strain A3H3, a bacterium with a high tolerance to arsenite, isolated from multicontaminated sediments of the l'Estaque harbor in Marseille, France. The genome is composed of a 5,489,893-bp chromosome and a 157,085-bp plasmid.