Genome Sequence of a Gram-Positive Diazotroph, Paenibacillus durus Type Strain ATCC 35681

Mardani Abdul Halim; Ahmad Yamin Rahman; Kee-Shin Sim; Hok-Chai Yam; Ainihayati Abdul Rahim; Amir Hamzah Ahmad Ghazali; Nazalan Najimudin

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00005-16

Genome Sequence of a Gram-Positive Diazotroph, Paenibacillus durus Type Strain ATCC 35681

Genome Announc. 2016 Feb 18;4(1):e00005-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00005-16.

Authors

Mardani Abdul Halim¹, Ahmad Yamin Rahman¹, Kee-Shin Sim¹, Hok-Chai Yam¹, Ainihayati Abdul Rahim¹, Amir Hamzah Ahmad Ghazali¹, Nazalan Najimudin²

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
² School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia [email protected].

Abstract

Here, we report the complete genome sequence of Paenibacillus durus type strain ATCC 35681, which can fix atmospheric nitrogen even in the presence of nitrate.

Grants and funding

Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education provided funding to Mardani Abdul Halim and Kee Shin Sim under the MyBrain15 Fellowship system. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) provided funding to Nazalan Najimudin under grant number 1001/PBIOLOGI/811184.