Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus licheniformis CG-B52, a Highly Virulent Bacterium of Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), Isolated from a Colombian Caribbean Aquaculture Outbreak

Eric J C Gálvez; Katerine Carrillo-Castro; Lina Zárate; Linda Güiza; Dietmar H Pieper; Erika García-Bonilla; Marcela Salazar; Howard Junca

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00321-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus licheniformis CG-B52, a Highly Virulent Bacterium of Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), Isolated from a Colombian Caribbean Aquaculture Outbreak

Genome Announc. 2016 May 12;4(3):e00321-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00321-16.

Authors

Eric J C Gálvez¹, Katerine Carrillo-Castro¹, Lina Zárate¹, Linda Güiza², Dietmar H Pieper³, Erika García-Bonilla⁴, Marcela Salazar², Howard Junca⁵

Affiliations

¹ Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.
² Corporación Centro de Investigación de la Acuicultura en Colombia, CENIACUA, Bogotá, Colombia.
³ Microbial Interactions and Processes Research Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
⁴ RG Microbial Ecology: Metabolism, Genomics & Evolution, Div Ecogenomics & Holobionts, Microbiomas Foundation, Chía, Colombia.
⁵ RG Microbial Ecology: Metabolism, Genomics & Evolution, Div Ecogenomics & Holobionts, Microbiomas Foundation, Chía, Colombia info@howardjunca.com.

Abstract

Bacillus licheniformis strain CG-B52 was isolated as the etiological agent producing a self-limited outbreak of high mortalities in commercial Litopenaeus vannamei culture ponds on the Colombian Caribbean coast in 2005. Here, we report its draft genome and three novel extrachromosomal elements that it harbors.