Draft Genome Sequences of Two Cultivable Strains of the Bacterial Symbiont Serratia symbiotica

François Renoz; Jérôme Ambroise; Bertrand Bearzatto; Patrice Baa-Puyoulet; Federica Calevro; Jean-Luc Gala; Thierry Hance

doi:10.1128/MRA.01579-19

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Cultivable Strains of the Bacterial Symbiont Serratia symbiotica

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Mar 5;9(10):e01579-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01579-19.

Authors

François Renoz¹, Jérôme Ambroise², Bertrand Bearzatto², Patrice Baa-Puyoulet³, Federica Calevro³, Jean-Luc Gala², Thierry Hance⁴

Affiliations

¹ Earth and Life Institute (ELI), Biodiversity Research Centre, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium francois.renoz@uclouvain.be.
² Center for Applied Molecular Technologies (CTMA), Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium.
³ Univ Lyon, INSA-Lyon, INRAE, BF2i, UMR0203, Villeurbanne, France.
⁴ Earth and Life Institute (ELI), Biodiversity Research Centre, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Abstract

Serratia symbiotica, one of the most frequent symbiont species in aphids, includes strains that exhibit various lifestyles ranging from free-living to obligate intracellular mutualism. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of two strains, namely, 24.1 and Apa8A1, isolated from aphids of the genus Aphis, consisting of genome sizes of 3,089,091 bp and 3,232,107 bp, respectively. These genome sequences may provide new insights into how mutualistic interactions between bacteria and insects evolve and are shaped.