Draft Genome Sequences of Histamine-Producing Photobacterium kishitanii and Photobacterium angustum, Isolated from Albacore (Thunnus alalunga) and Yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) Tuna

Kristin Bjornsdottir-Butler; Susan A McCarthy; Paul V Dunlap; Ruth E Timme; Ronald A Benner Jr

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00400-15

Draft Genome Sequences of Histamine-Producing Photobacterium kishitanii and Photobacterium angustum, Isolated from Albacore (Thunnus alalunga) and Yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) Tuna

Genome Announc. 2015 Apr 30;3(2):e00400-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00400-15.

Authors

Kristin Bjornsdottir-Butler¹, Susan A McCarthy², Paul V Dunlap³, Ruth E Timme⁴, Ronald A Benner Jr²

Affiliations

¹ FDA, Division of Seafood Science and Technology, Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA [email protected].
² FDA, Division of Seafood Science and Technology, Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA.
³ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
⁴ FDA, Division of Public Health Informatics and Analytics, College Park, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Histamine-producing bacteria are responsible for scombrotoxin (histamine) fish poisoning, a leading cause of fish poisoning in the United States. We report here the draft genome sequences of four histamine-producing (HP) Photobacterium kishitanii strains and nine HP Photobacterium angustum strains isolated from tuna.