Draft Genome Sequence of the Halophilic and Highly Halotolerant Gammaproteobacteria Strain MFB021

Toms C Joseph; Anju Baby; Dinesh Reghunathan; Aswathy Mary Varghese; V Murugadas; K V Lalitha

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01156-14

Draft Genome Sequence of the Halophilic and Highly Halotolerant Gammaproteobacteria Strain MFB021

Genome Announc. 2014 Nov 20;2(6):e01156-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01156-14.

Authors

Toms C Joseph¹, Anju Baby², Dinesh Reghunathan², Aswathy Mary Varghese², V Murugadas², K V Lalitha²

Affiliations

¹ Microbiology, Fermentation and Biotechnology Division, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India [email protected].
² Microbiology, Fermentation and Biotechnology Division, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India.

Abstract

We report the 4.25-Mbp first draft sequence of Gammaproteobacteria strain MFB021, a moderate halophile isolated from petroleum-contaminated soil in Cochin, India. The genome of the strain MFB021 was sequenced to understand the mechanism of hydrocarbon degradation and the halophilicity of the bacterium.