Draft Genome Sequence of Geobacillus sp. Strain LEMMJ02, a Thermophile Isolated from Deception Island, an Active Volcano in Antarctica

Júnia Schultz; René Kallies; Ulisses Nunes da Rocha; Alexandre Soares Rosado

doi:10.1128/MRA.00920-19

Draft Genome Sequence of Geobacillus sp. Strain LEMMJ02, a Thermophile Isolated from Deception Island, an Active Volcano in Antarctica

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 17;8(42):e00920-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00920-19.

Authors

Júnia Schultz¹, René Kallies², Ulisses Nunes da Rocha², Alexandre Soares Rosado^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Molecular Microbial Ecology, Institute of Microbiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
² Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
³ Laboratory of Molecular Microbial Ecology, Institute of Microbiology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil asrosado@micro.ufrj.br.
⁴ Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA.

Abstract

The thermophilic Geobacillus sp. strain LEMMJ02 was isolated from Fumarole Bay sediment on Deception Island, an active Antarctic volcano. Here, we report the draft genome of LEMMJ02, which consists of 3,160,938 bp with 52.8% GC content and 3,523 protein-coding genes.