Draft Genome Sequence of Photorhabdus luminescens Strain BA1, an Entomopathogenic Bacterium Isolated from Nematodes Found in Egypt

Shimaa Ghazal; Sheldon G Hurst 4th; Krystalynne Morris; Feseha Abebe-Akele; W Kelley Thomas; Usama M Badr; Mona A Hussein; Mohamed A Abouzaied; Kamal M Khalil; Louis S Tisa

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00396-14

Draft Genome Sequence of Photorhabdus luminescens Strain BA1, an Entomopathogenic Bacterium Isolated from Nematodes Found in Egypt

Genome Announc. 2014 May 1;2(2):e00396-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00396-14.

Authors

Shimaa Ghazal¹, Sheldon G Hurst 4th, Krystalynne Morris, Feseha Abebe-Akele, W Kelley Thomas, Usama M Badr, Mona A Hussein, Mohamed A Abouzaied, Kamal M Khalil, Louis S Tisa

Affiliation

¹ University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.

Abstract

Photorhabdus luminescens strain BA1 is an entomopathogenic bacterium that forms a symbiotic association with Heterorhabditis nematodes. We report here a 5.0-Mbp draft genome sequence for P. luminscens strain BA1, with a G+C content of 42.46% and 4,250 candidate protein-coding genes.