Complete Genome Sequence of the Fish Pathogen Flavobacterium columnare Strain C#2

Ryan P Bartelme; Ryan J Newton; Yongtao Zhu; Nan Li; Benjamin R LaFrentz; Mark J McBride

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00624-16

Complete Genome Sequence of the Fish Pathogen Flavobacterium columnare Strain C#2

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 23;4(3):e00624-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00624-16.

Authors

Ryan P Bartelme¹, Ryan J Newton², Yongtao Zhu³, Nan Li⁴, Benjamin R LaFrentz⁵, Mark J McBride³

Affiliations

¹ School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA [email protected].
² School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
⁴ Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
⁵ United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Aquatic Animal Health Research Unit, Auburn, Alabama, USA.

Abstract

Flavobacterium columnare is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes columnaris disease of freshwater fish. Flavobacterium columnare strain C#2 was isolated from a diseased warm-water fish and is typed as genomovar II. The genome consists of a single 3.33-Mb circular chromosome with 2,689 predicted coding genes.

Grants and funding

This work, including the efforts of Ryan J. Newton, was funded by a University of Wisconsin System Incentive grant to the School of Freshwater Sciences. This work, including the efforts of Mark J. McBride, was funded by the Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, University of Wisconsin (519K805), and by USDA CRIS project number 5090-31320-002-00D.