title: High quality draft genome sequence of the moderately halophilic bacterium Pontibacillus yanchengensis Y32(T) and comparison among Pontibacillus genomes.
abstract: Pontibacillus yanchengensis Y32(T) is an aerobic, motile, Gram-positive, endospore-forming, and moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt field. In this study, we describe the features of P. yanchengensis strain Y32(T) together with a comparison with other four Pontibacillus genomes. The 4,281,464 bp high-quality-draft genome of strain Y32(T) is arranged into 153 contigs containing 3,965 protein-coding genes and 77 RNA encoding genes. The genome of strain Y32(T) possesses many genes related to its halophilic character, flagellar assembly and chemotaxis to support its survival in a salt-rich environment.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 P. R. China.
authors.forename: Zi Xu
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Qiao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jing Wei
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 P. R. China.
authors.forename: Gejiao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: Flagellar and chemotaxis; Genomic comparison; Moderately halophilic; Pontibacillus; Pontibacillus yanchengensis