Whole-Genome Sequence of the Novel Enterobacter Bacteriophage Arya with an Integrase Pseudogene, Isolated from the Gut of the Formosan Subterranean Termite

Chinmay Vijay Tikhe; Chris R Gissendanner; Claudia Husseneder

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00838-17

Whole-Genome Sequence of the Novel Enterobacter Bacteriophage Arya with an Integrase Pseudogene, Isolated from the Gut of the Formosan Subterranean Termite

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 4;6(1):e00838-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00838-17.

Authors

Chinmay Vijay Tikhe¹, Chris R Gissendanner², Claudia Husseneder³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA ctikhe1@jhu.edu.
² School of Science, University of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana, USA.
³ Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

Abstract

We isolated and sequenced the novel Enterobacter bacteriophage Arya from termite gut. The genome showed synteny to lytic bacteriophage genomes; however, the genome encodes a truncated, putatively nonfunctional integrase pseudogene. Lysogeny-related genes were previously observed in certain lytic phages, but their role and evolution remain unclear.