Draft Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Phycosocius bacilliformis," an Alphaproteobacterial Ectosymbiont of the Hydrocarbon-Producing Green Alga Botryococcus braunii

Yuuhiko Tanabe; Haruyo Yamaguchi; Makoto M Watanabe

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00396-18

Draft Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Phycosocius bacilliformis," an Alphaproteobacterial Ectosymbiont of the Hydrocarbon-Producing Green Alga Botryococcus braunii

Genome Announc. 2018 May 10;6(19):e00396-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00396-18.

Authors

Yuuhiko Tanabe¹, Haruyo Yamaguchi², Makoto M Watanabe³

Affiliations

¹ Algae Biomass and Energy System R&D Center, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan [email protected].
² Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan.
³ Algae Biomass and Energy System R&D Center, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Abstract

"Candidatus Phycosocius bacilliformis" is an alphaproteobacterial ectosymbiont of the hydrocarbon-producing green alga Botryococcus braunii We sequenced the whole genome of "Ca. P. bacilliformis" BOTRYCO-2, isolated from a two-membered culture with B. braunii The genome contains approximately 3.3 Mb, with an average G+C content of 56.91% and 3,125 predicted protein-coding genes.