Permanent Improved High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of Nocardia casuarinae Strain BMG51109, an Endophyte of Actinorhizal Root Nodules of Casuarina glauca

Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari; Nicholas Beauchemin; Moussa Louati; Imen Nouioui; Amir Ktari; Karima Hezbri; Abdellatif Gueddou; Amy Chen; Marcel Huntemann; Natalia Ivanova; Nikos Kyrpides; Victor Markowitz; Kostas Mavrommatis; Ioanna Pagani; Arnab Sen; Luis Wall; Tanja Woyke; Maher Gtari; Louis S Tisa

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00799-16

Permanent Improved High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of Nocardia casuarinae Strain BMG51109, an Endophyte of Actinorhizal Root Nodules of Casuarina glauca

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 4;4(4):e00799-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00799-16.

Authors

Faten Ghodhbane-Gtari¹, Nicholas Beauchemin², Moussa Louati¹, Imen Nouioui¹, Amir Ktari¹, Karima Hezbri¹, Abdellatif Gueddou¹, Amy Chen³, Marcel Huntemann³, Natalia Ivanova³, Nikos Kyrpides³, Victor Markowitz³, Kostas Mavrommatis³, Ioanna Pagani³, Arnab Sen⁴, Luis Wall⁵, Tanja Woyke³, Maher Gtari¹, Louis S Tisa⁶

Affiliations

¹ University of Tunis-El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
² University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.
³ DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁴ University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India.
⁵ University of Quilmes, Quilmes, Argentina.
⁶ University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA [email protected].

Abstract

Here, we report the first genome sequence of a Nocardia plant endophyte, N. casuarinae strain BMG51109, isolated from Casuarina glauca root nodules. The improved high-quality draft genome sequence contains 8,787,999 bp with a 68.90% GC content and 7,307 predicted protein-coding genes.