Draft Genome Sequence of Lactobacillus paracasei DmW181, a Bacterium Isolated from Wild Drosophila

Austin J Hammer; Amber Walters; Courtney Carroll; Peter D Newell; John M Chaston

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00545-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Lactobacillus paracasei DmW181, a Bacterium Isolated from Wild Drosophila

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 6;5(27):e00545-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00545-17.

Authors

Austin J Hammer¹, Amber Walters¹, Courtney Carroll¹, Peter D Newell², John M Chaston³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY-Oswego, Oswego, New York, USA.
³ Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA john_chaston@byu.edu.

Abstract

The draft genome sequence of Lactobacillus paracasei DmW181, an anaerobic bacterium isolate from wild Drosophila flies, is reported here. Strain DmW181 possesses genes for sialic acid and mannose metabolism. The assembled genome is 3,201,429 bp, with 3,454 predicted genes.