Draft genome sequence of Halopiger salifodinae KCY07-B2(T), an extremly halophilic archaeon isolated from a salt mine

Wei-Yan Zhang; Jing Hu; Jie Pan; Cong Sun; Min Wu; Xue-Wei Xu

doi:10.1186/s40793-015-0113-y

Draft genome sequence of Halopiger salifodinae KCY07-B2(T), an extremly halophilic archaeon isolated from a salt mine

Stand Genomic Sci. 2015 Dec 10:10:124. doi: 10.1186/s40793-015-0113-y. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Wei-Yan Zhang¹, Jing Hu¹, Jie Pan¹, Cong Sun¹, Min Wu¹, Xue-Wei Xu²

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 P. R. China.
² Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou, 310012 P. R. China.

Abstract

Halopiger salifodinae strain KCY07-B2(T), isolated from a salt mine in Kuche county, Xinjiang province, China, belongs to the family Halobacteriaceae. It is a strictly aerobic, pleomorphic, rod-shaped, Gram-negative and extremely halophilic archaeon. In this work, we report the features of the type strain KCY07-B2(T), together with the draft genome sequence and annotation. The draft genome sequence is composed of 83 contigs for 4,350,718 bp with 65.41 % G + C content and contains 4204 protein-coding genes and 50 rRNA genes.

Keywords: Archaea; Extreme halophile; Genome; Halopiger salifodinae; Salt mine.

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