Draft Genome Sequence from a Putative New Genus and Species in the Family Methanoregulaceae Isolated from the Anoxic Basin of Lake Untersee in East Antarctica

Nicole Y Wagner; Aria S Hahn; Dale Andersen; Mary Beth Wilhelm; Connor Morgan-Lang; Mia Vanderwilt; Sarah Stewart Johnson

doi:10.1128/MRA.00271-19

Draft Genome Sequence from a Putative New Genus and Species in the Family Methanoregulaceae Isolated from the Anoxic Basin of Lake Untersee in East Antarctica

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 May 2;8(18):e00271-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00271-19.

Authors

Nicole Y Wagner¹, Aria S Hahn^{2

3}, Dale Andersen⁴, Mary Beth Wilhelm⁵, Connor Morgan-Lang^{2

3}, Mia Vanderwilt⁶, Sarah Stewart Johnson^{7

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Koonkie Cloud Services, Inc., Menlo Park, California, USA.
⁴ Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute, Mountain View, California, USA.
⁵ Space Science and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
⁶ Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁷ Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA sarah.johnson@georgetown.edu.

Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequence for a new putative genus and species in the Methanoregulaceae family, whose members are generally slow-growing rod-shaped or coccoid methanogenic archaea. The information on this sediment-dwelling organism sheds light on the prokaryotes inhabiting isolated, deep, and extremely cold methane-rich environments.