title: Complete genome sequence of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale strain ORT-UMN 88.
abstract: Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale strain ORT-UMN 88 is a Gram-negative, pleomorphic, rod-shaped bacterium and an etiologic agent of pneumonia and airsacculitis in poultry. It is a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae of the phylum Bacteroidetes. O. rhinotracheale strain ORT-UMN 88 was isolated from the pneumonic lung of a turkey in 1995. It was the isolate first used to experimentally reproduce disease in turkeys and has since been the focus of investigations characterizing potential virulence factors of the bacterium. The genome of O. rhinotracheale strain ORT-UMN 88 consists of a circular chromosome of 2,397,867 bp with a total of 2300 protein-coding genes, nine RNA genes, and one noncoding RNA gene. A companion paper in this issue of SIGS reports the non-contiguous finished genome sequence of an additional strain of O. rhinotracheale, isolated in 2006.
authors.affiliation: Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA, USA.
authors.forename: Emilie S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Zehr
authors.affiliation: Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA, USA.
authors.forename: Darrell O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Bayles
authors.affiliation: Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA, USA.
authors.forename: William D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Boatwright
authors.affiliation: Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA, USA ; Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
authors.forename: Louisa B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Tabatabai
authors.affiliation: Ruminant Diseases and Immunology Research Unit, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA, USA.
authors.forename: Karen B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Register
keywords: Genome sequence; Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale; Poultry; Respiratory disease