title: High quality draft genome sequence of the slightly halophilic bacterium Halomonas zhanjiangensis type strain JSM 078169(T) (DSM 21076(T)) from a sea urchin in southern China.
abstract: Halomonas zhanjiangensis Chen et al. 2009 is a member of the genus Halomonas, family Halomonadaceae, class Gammaproteobacteria. Representatives of the genus Halomonas are a group of halophilic bacteria often isolated from salty environments. The type strain H. zhanjiangensis JSM 078169(T) was isolated from a sea urchin (Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus) collected from the South China Sea. The genome of strain JSM 078169(T) is the fourteenth sequenced genome in the genus Halomonas and the fifteenth in the family Halomonadaceae. The other thirteen genomes from the genus Halomonas are H. halocynthiae, H. venusta, H. alkaliphila, H. lutea, H. anticariensis, H. jeotgali, H. titanicae, H. desiderata, H. smyrnensis, H. salifodinae, H. boliviensis, H. elongata and H stevensii. Here, we describe the features of strain JSM 078169(T), together with the complete genome sequence and annotation from a culture of DSM 21076(T). The 4,060,520 bp long draft genome consists of 17 scaffolds with the 3,659 protein-coding and 80 RNA genes and is a part of Genomic Encyclopedia of Type Strains, Phase I: the one thousand microbial genomes (KMG) project.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity in Southwest China, Ministry of Education and the Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China ; State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Plant Pest Control; Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Plant Pest Control; Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China ; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Yang
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bionformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia ; Algorithmic Biology Lab, St. Petersburg Academic University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
authors.forename: Alla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lapidus
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haynes
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lobos
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huntemann
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
authors.forename: Amrita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pati
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
authors.forename: Natalia N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Ivanova
authors.affiliation: HZI - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rohde
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mavromatis
authors.affiliation: Leibniz-Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
authors.forename: Brian J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Tindall
authors.affiliation: Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Woyke
authors.affiliation: Leibniz-Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
authors.forename: Hans-Peter
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Klenk
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA ; Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Nikos C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity in Southwest China, Ministry of Education and the Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China ; Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China.
authors.forename: Wen-Jun
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Li
keywords: Halomonadaceae; chemoorganotrophic; motile Gram-negative; slightly halophilic; strictly aerobic