Draft Genome Sequence of Antarctic Methanogen Enriched from Dry Valley Permafrost

Joy Buongiorno; Jordan T Bird; Kirill Krivushin; Victoria Oshurkova; Victoria Shcherbakova; Elizaveta M Rivkina; Karen G Lloyd; Tatiana A Vishnivetskaya

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01362-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Antarctic Methanogen Enriched from Dry Valley Permafrost

Genome Announc. 2016 Dec 8;4(6):e01362-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01362-16.

Authors

Joy Buongiorno¹, Jordan T Bird¹, Kirill Krivushin², Victoria Oshurkova³, Victoria Shcherbakova³, Elizaveta M Rivkina², Karen G Lloyd⁴, Tatiana A Vishnivetskaya⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
² Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia.
³ Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA klloyd@utk.edu tvishniv@utk.edu.

Abstract

A genomic reconstruction belonging to the genus Methanosarcina was assembled from metagenomic data from a methane-producing enrichment of Antarctic permafrost. This is the first methanogen genome reported from permafrost of the Dry Valleys and can help shed light on future climate-affected methane dynamics.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) (DEB-1442262) for K.G.L., and T.A.V., OCE-1431598 for J.T.B., Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations OCE-0939564 contribution #339 for J.B.), and Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), 14-14-01115 and 12-04-31416 for K.K. and E.M.R.