Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus sp. Strain 311R

Elham Ehsani; Ruy Jauregui; Robert Geffers; Michael Jareck; Nico Boon; Dietmar H Pieper; Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00378-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus sp. Strain 311R

Genome Announc. 2015 May 21;3(3):e00378-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00378-15.

Authors

Elham Ehsani¹, Ruy Jauregui², Robert Geffers³, Michael Jareck³, Nico Boon¹, Dietmar H Pieper², Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
² Microbial Interactions and Processes Research Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
³ Genome Analytics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
⁴ University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium [email protected].

Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Rhodococcus sp. strain 311R, which was isolated from a site contaminated with alkanes and aromatic compounds. Strain 311R shares 90% of the genome of Rhodococcus erythropolis SK121, which is the closest related bacteria.