Metagenome-Assembled Genomes for " Candidatus Phormidium sp. Strain AB48" and Co-occurring Microorganisms from an Industrial Photobioreactor Environment

Avery J C Noonan; Yilin Qiu; Brandon Kieft; Sean Formby; Tony Liu; Kalen Dofher; Moritz Koch; Steven J Hallam

doi:10.1128/mra.00447-22

Metagenome-Assembled Genomes for " Candidatus Phormidium sp. Strain AB48" and Co-occurring Microorganisms from an Industrial Photobioreactor Environment

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Dec 15;11(12):e0044722. doi: 10.1128/mra.00447-22. Epub 2022 Nov 21.

Authors

Avery J C Noonan^#^{1

2}, Yilin Qiu^#¹, Brandon Kieft³, Sean Formby⁴, Tony Liu⁴, Kalen Dofher¹, Moritz Koch³, Steven J Hallam^{1

2

3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Genome Science and Technology Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
² ECOSCOPE Training Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴ Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Here, we report metagenome-assembled genomes for "Candidatus Phormidium sp. strain AB48" and three cooccurring microorganisms from a biofilm-forming industrial photobioreactor environment, using the PacBio sequencing platform. Several mobile genetic elements, including a double-stranded DNA phage and plasmids, were also recovered, with the potential to mediate gene transfer within the biofilm community.