title: Draft Genome Sequence of Erwinia tracheiphila, an Economically Important Bacterial Pathogen of Cucurbits.
abstract: Erwinia tracheiphila is one of the most economically important pathogens of cucumbers, melons, squashes, pumpkins, and gourds in the northeastern and midwestern United States, yet its molecular pathology remains uninvestigated. Here, we report the first draft genome sequence of an E. tracheiphila strain isolated from an infected wild gourd (Cucurbita pepo subsp. texana) plant. The genome assembly consists of 7 contigs and includes a putative plasmid and at least 20 phage and prophage elements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA lori.r.shapiro@gmail.com olga.zhaxybayeva@dartmouth.edu.
authors.forename: Lori R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: Erin D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Scully
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Straub
authors.affiliation: U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Services, Hilo, Hawaii, USA.
authors.forename: Scott M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Geib
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Bioinformatics and Genomics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Jihye
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Stephenson
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Salaau Rojas
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
authors.forename: Quin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
authors.forename: Gwyn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Beattie
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gleason
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Consuelo M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: De Moraes
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Mark C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Mescher
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Shelby G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Fleischer
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kolter
authors.affiliation: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Naomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pierce
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zhaxybayeva