title: High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of the Mimosa asperata - nodulating Cupriavidus sp. strain AMP6.
abstract: Cupriavidus sp. strain AMP6 is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that was isolated from a root nodule of Mimosa asperata collected in Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, in 2005. Mimosa asperata is the only legume described so far to exclusively associates with Cupriavidus symbionts. Moreover, strain AMP6 represents an early-diverging lineage within the symbiotic Cupriavidus group and has the capacity to develop an effective nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with three other species of Mimosa. Therefore, the genome of Cupriavidus sp. strain AMP6 enables comparative analyses of symbiotic trait evolution in this genus and here we describe the general features, together with sequence and annotation. The 7,579,563 bp high-quality permanent draft genome is arranged in 260 scaffolds of 262 contigs, contains 7,033 protein-coding genes and 97 RNA-only encoding genes, and is part of the GEBA-RNB project proposal.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia.
authors.forename: Sofie E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: De Meyer
authors.affiliation: Binghamton University, State University of New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.affiliation: Soybean Genomics and improvement laboratory Bldg 006, BARC-West USDA ARS 10300 Baltimore Blvd, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Van Berkum
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tian
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: T B K
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Reddy
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.
authors.forename: Amrita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pati
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: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Howieson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia.
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Reeve
keywords: Betaproteobacteria; GEBA-RNB; Mimosa asperata; Nitrogen fixation; Root-nodule bacteria; Texas