title: High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of the Lebeckia ambigua-nodulating Burkholderia sp. strain WSM4176.
abstract: Burkholderia sp. strain WSM4176 is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that was isolated from an effective N2-fixing root nodule of Lebeckia ambigua collected in Nieuwoudtville, Western Cape of South Africa, in October 2007. This plant persists in infertile, acidic and deep sandy soils, and is therefore an ideal candidate for a perennial based agriculture system in Western Australia. Here we describe the features of Burkholderia sp. strain WSM4176, which represents a potential inoculant quality strain for L. ambigua, together with sequence and annotation. The 9,065,247 bp high-quality-draft genome is arranged in 13 scaffolds of 65 contigs, contains 8369 protein-coding genes and 128 RNA-only encoding genes, and is part of the GEBA-RNB project proposal (Project ID 882).
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA Australia.
authors.forename: Sofie E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: De Meyer
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 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: Tbk
authors.initials: T
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 ; Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA Australia ; Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yates
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA Australia.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Howieson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Rhizobium Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA Australia.
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Reeve
keywords: Betaproteobacteria; GEBA-RNB; Nitrogen fixation; Rhizobia; Root-nodule bacteria