Draft Genome of Chilean Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Gut Strain Lactobacillus kunkeei MP2

Alejandro Olmos; Patricia Henríquez-Piskulich; Carolina Sanchez; Marcelo Rojas-Herrera; Mario Moreno-Pino; Marcela Gómez; Rafael Rodríguez Da Silva; Vinicius Maracaja-Coutinho; Patricia Aldea; Annette N Trombert

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01013-14

Draft Genome of Chilean Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Gut Strain Lactobacillus kunkeei MP2

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 9;2(5):e01013-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01013-14.

Affiliations

¹ Centro de Genómica y Bioinformática (CGyB), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
² Ceapi Mayor, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
³ Centro de Genómica y Bioinformática (CGyB), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile annette.trombert@umayor.cl.

Abstract

Here, we report the first draft genome sequence of Lactobacillus kunkeei strain MP2, isolated from a Chilean honeybee gut. The sequenced genome has a total size of 1.58 Mb distributed into 44 contigs and 1,356 protein-coding sequences.