Draft Genome Sequence of a Novel SAR11 Clade Species Abundant in a Tibetan Lake

Seungdae Oh; Rui Zhang; Qinglong L Wu; Wen-Tso Liu

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01137-14

Draft Genome Sequence of a Novel SAR11 Clade Species Abundant in a Tibetan Lake

Genome Announc. 2014 Nov 6;2(6):e01137-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01137-14.

Authors

Seungdae Oh¹, Rui Zhang, Qinglong L Wu², Wen-Tso Liu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
² State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
³ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA wtliu@illinois.edu.

Abstract

SAR11 clade bacteria are abundant and play a key role in the nutrient cycles of marine and, presumably, inland aquatic environments. We report here the draft genome sequence of a novel species in the SAR11 cluster, reconstructed from a metagenomic data set obtained from a Tibetan lake.