Genomes of Alteromonas australica, a world apart.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alteromonas is a genus of marine bacteria that is very easy to isolate and grow in the laboratory. There are genomes available of the species Alteromonas macleodii from different locations around the world and an Alteromonas sp. isolated from a sediment in Korea. We have analyzed the genomes of two strains classified by 16S rRNA (>99% similarity) as the recently described species Alteromonas australica, and isolated from opposite ends of the world; A. australica DE170 was isolated in the South Adriatic (Mediterranean) at 1000 m depth while A. australica H17T was isolated from a sea water sample collected in St Kilda Beach, Tasman Sea.

Results

Although these two strains belong to a clearly different species from A. macleodii, the overall synteny is well preserved a

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Perez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4119200 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature