Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus sp. Strain NCIMB 12038, a Naphthalene-Degrading Bacterium

Shamsudeen U Dandare; Timofey Skvortsov; Ksenia Arkhipova; Christopher C R Allen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01420-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus sp. Strain NCIMB 12038, a Naphthalene-Degrading Bacterium

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 4;6(1):e01420-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01420-17.

Authors

Shamsudeen U Dandare^#¹, Timofey Skvortsov^#¹, Ksenia Arkhipova¹, Christopher C R Allen²

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
² School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom c.allen@qub.ac.uk.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequence of Rhodococcus sp. strain NCIMB 12038, an industrially important bacterium, possessing a large and diverse repertoire of genes involved in the biotransformation of various organic compounds, including naphthalene.