Whole-Genome Sequence of Serratia symbiotica Strain CWBI-2.3T, a Free-Living Symbiont of the Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae

Vincent Foray; Alina S Grigorescu; Ahmed Sabri; Eric Haubruge; Georges Lognay; Frederic Francis; Marie-Laure Fauconnier; Thierry Hance; Philippe Thonart

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00767-14

Whole-Genome Sequence of Serratia symbiotica Strain CWBI-2.3T, a Free-Living Symbiont of the Black Bean Aphid Aphis fabae

Genome Announc. 2014 Aug 21;2(4):e00767-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00767-14.

Authors

Vincent Foray¹, Alina S Grigorescu², Ahmed Sabri², Eric Haubruge³, Georges Lognay⁴, Frederic Francis³, Marie-Laure Fauconnier⁵, Thierry Hance⁶, Philippe Thonart²

Affiliations

¹ Catholic University of Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Biodiversity Research Centre, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium vincent.foray@uclouvain.be.
² University of Liège, Walloon Center of Industrial Biology, Liège, Belgium.
³ University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Functional and Evolutionary Entomology Unit, Gembloux, Belgium.
⁴ University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Gembloux, Belgium.
⁵ University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, General and Organic Chemistry Unit, Gembloux, Belgium.
⁶ Catholic University of Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Biodiversity Research Centre, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Abstract

The gammaproteobacterium Serratia symbiotica is one of the major secondary symbionts found in aphids. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of S. symbiotica strain CWBI-2.3(T), previously isolated from the black bean aphid Aphis fabae. The 3.58-Mb genome sequence might provide new insights to understand the evolution of insect-microbe symbiosis.