Draft Genome Sequences of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa Strains Isolated from the International Space Station

Robert Daudu; Ceth W Parker; Nitin K Singh; Jason M Wood; Marilyne Debieu; Niamh B O'Hara; Christopher E Mason; Kasthuri Venkateswaran

doi:10.1128/MRA.00570-20

Draft Genome Sequences of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa Strains Isolated from the International Space Station

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jul 30;9(31):e00570-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00570-20.

Authors

Robert Daudu¹, Ceth W Parker¹, Nitin K Singh¹, Jason M Wood¹, Marilyne Debieu², Niamh B O'Hara^{2

3}, Christopher E Mason^{4

5}, Kasthuri Venkateswaran⁶

Affiliations

¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
² Biota, New York, New York, USA.
³ Department of Cell Biology, College of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
⁴ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁵ The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁶ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA kjvenkat@jpl.nasa.gov.

Abstract

The whole-genome sequences (WGS) of 28 isolates from the International Space Station were generated and identified as Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, a pigmented yeast that has been classified as an emerging human pathogen in recent times. These WGS enable the identification of genes responsible for synthesizing compounds with biological implications.