Whole-Genome Sequence of the Novel Temperate Enterobacter Bacteriophage Tyrion, Isolated from the Gut of the Formosan Subterranean Termite

Chinmay Vijay Tikhe; Chris R Gissendanner; Claudia Husseneder

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00839-17

Whole-Genome Sequence of the Novel Temperate Enterobacter Bacteriophage Tyrion, Isolated from the Gut of the Formosan Subterranean Termite

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 4;6(1):e00839-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00839-17.

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 sequenced the genome of the novel Enterobacter bacteriophage Tyrion isolated from termite gut. The bacteriophage is temperate in nature and belongs to the Podoviridae family. Many predicted bacteriophage genes showed similarity to prophage regions of the genomes of Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. This is the second bacteriophage isolated from termite gut.