Single Circular Chromosome Identified from the Genome Sequence of the Vibrio cholerae O1 bv. El Tor Ogawa Strain V060002

Shouji Yamamoto; Ken-Ichi Lee; Masatomo Morita; Eiji Arakawa; Hidemasa Izumiya; Makoto Ohnishi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00564-18

Single Circular Chromosome Identified from the Genome Sequence of the Vibrio cholerae O1 bv. El Tor Ogawa Strain V060002

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 21;6(25):e00564-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00564-18.

Authors

Shouji Yamamoto^#¹, Ken-Ichi Lee^#², Masatomo Morita², Eiji Arakawa², Hidemasa Izumiya², Makoto Ohnishi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan yshouji@nih.go.jp.
² Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report here the complete genome sequence of the Vibrio cholerae O1 bv. El Tor Ogawa strain V060002, isolated in 1997. The data demonstrate that this clinical strain has a single chromosome resulting from recombination of two prototypical chromosomes.