title: High-Quality draft genome sequence of the Lotus spp. microsymbiont Mesorhizobium loti strain CJ3Sym.
abstract: Mesorhizobium loti strain CJ3Sym was isolated in 1998 following transfer of the integrative and conjugative element ICEMlSym(R7A), also known as the R7A symbiosis island, in a laboratory mating from the donor M. loti strain R7A to a nonsymbiotic recipient Mesorhizobium strain CJ3. Strain CJ3 was originally isolated from a field site in the Rocklands range in New Zealand in 1994. CJ3Sym is an aerobic, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod. This report reveals the genome of M. loti strain CJ3Sym currently comprises 70 scaffolds totaling 7,563,725 bp. The high-quality draft genome is arranged in 70 scaffolds of 71 contigs, contains 7,331 protein-coding genes and 70 RNA-only encoding genes, and is part of the GEBA-RNB project proposal.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Perth, WA Australia.
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Reeve
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Clive
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ronson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Perth, WA Australia.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, NM USA.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Munk
authors.affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, NM USA.
authors.forename: Cliff
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: T B K
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Rekha
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seshadri
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Woyke
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Amrita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pati
authors.affiliation: Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA.
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ivanova
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA ; Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
keywords: Alphaproteobacteria; GEBA-RNB; Nitrogen fixation; Root-nodule bacteria; Symbiosis