Draft Genome Sequence of the Axenic Strain Phormidesmispriestleyi ULC007, a Cyanobacterium Isolated from Lake Bruehwiler (Larsemann Hills, Antarctica)

Yannick Lara; Benoit Durieu; Luc Cornet; Olivier Verlaine; Rosmarie Rippka; Igor S Pessi; Agnieszka Misztak; Bernard Joris; Emmanuelle J Javaux; Denis Baurain; Annick Wilmotte

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01546-16

Draft Genome Sequence of the Axenic Strain Phormidesmispriestleyi ULC007, a Cyanobacterium Isolated from Lake Bruehwiler (Larsemann Hills, Antarctica)

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 16;5(7):e01546-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01546-16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ InBioS-Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium [email protected] [email protected].
² InBioS-Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
³ InBioS-PhytoSYSTEMS, Eukaryotic Phylogenomics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
⁴ UR-Geology-Palaeo-Biogeology-Botany-Palynology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
⁵ Institut Pasteur, Unité des Cyanobactéries, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Unité de Recherche Associée (URA) 2172, Paris, France.
⁶ BCCM/ULC, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.

Abstract

Phormidesmis priestleyi ULC007 is an Antarctic freshwater cyanobacterium. Its draft genome is 5,684,389 bp long. It contains a total of 5,604 protein-encoding genes, of which 22.2% have no clear homologues in known genomes. To date, this draft genome is the first one ever determined for an axenic cyanobacterium from Antarctica.