Draft Genome Sequence of the Bactrocera oleae Symbiont "Candidatus Erwinia dacicola"

Frances Blow; Anastasia Gioti; David Starns; Michael Ben-Yosef; Zohar Pasternak; Edouard Jurkevitch; John Vontas; Alistair C Darby

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00896-16

Draft Genome Sequence of the Bactrocera oleae Symbiont "Candidatus Erwinia dacicola"

Genome Announc. 2016 Sep 15;4(5):e00896-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00896-16.

Authors

Frances Blow¹, Anastasia Gioti², David Starns¹, Michael Ben-Yosef³, Zohar Pasternak⁴, Edouard Jurkevitch⁴, John Vontas⁵, Alistair C Darby⁶

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
² Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, Heraklion Crete, Greece.
³ Department of Entomology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
⁴ Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
⁵ Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, Heraklion Crete, Greece Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
⁶ Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom acdarby@liv.ac.uk.

Abstract

"Candidatus Erwinia dacicola" is a Gammaproteobacterium that forms a symbiotic association with the agricultural pest Bactrocera oleae Here, we present a 2.1-Mb draft hybrid genome assembly for "Ca. Erwinia dacicola" generated from single-cell and metagenomic data.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Oxitec Ltd. through an iCASE studentship (BB/K501773/1) awarded to A.C.D., and the ARISTEIA Action of the Operational Programme Education and Lifelong Learning and is cofunded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and National Resources (code number 4937) to J.V.