Improved High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of the Eurypsychrophile Rhodotorula sp. JG1b, Isolated from Permafrost in the Hyperarid Upper-Elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Jacqueline Goordial; Isabelle Raymond-Bouchard; Robert Riley; Jennifer Ronholm; Nicole Shapiro; Tanja Woyke; Kurt M LaButti; Hope Tice; Mojgan Amirebrahimi; Igor V Grigoriev; Charles Greer; Corien Bakermans; Lyle Whyte

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00069-16

Improved High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of the Eurypsychrophile Rhodotorula sp. JG1b, Isolated from Permafrost in the Hyperarid Upper-Elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Genome Announc. 2016 Mar 17;4(2):e00069-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00069-16.

Affiliations

¹ McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
² DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
³ National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
⁴ Altoona College, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁵ McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada lyle.whyte@mcgill.ca.

Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Rhodotorula sp. strain JG1b, a yeast that was isolated from ice-cemented permafrost in the upper-elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. The sequenced genome size is 19.39 Mb, consisting of 156 scaffolds and containing a total of 5,625 predicted genes. This is the first known cold-adapted Rhodotorula sp. sequenced to date.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by NASA's ASTEP program and received field support via NSF/OPP (project B-302-M). Support was provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grant Program, NSERC Northern Supplements Program, and NSERC CREATE Canadian Astrobiology Training Program (CATP). The work by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231.