Draft Genome Sequences of Marine Isolates of Thalassomonas viridans and Thalassomonas actiniarum

Israel Olonade; Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl; Marla Trindade

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00297-15

Draft Genome Sequences of Marine Isolates of Thalassomonas viridans and Thalassomonas actiniarum

Genome Announc. 2015 Apr 16;3(2):e00297-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00297-15.

Authors

Israel Olonade¹, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl², Marla Trindade¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa vanzyllj@gmail.com.

Abstract

Thalassomonas viridans and Thalassomonas actiniarum are aerobic Gram-negative bacilli which belong to a genus that has not received much attention, even though, as demonstrated here by the sequencing of their genomes, they are quite different from their closest relatives in current databases. Their genomes are relatively large at 7.7 and 7.4 Mb, respectively. This brief report describes the first draft genomes for any Thalassomonas species.