Complete Genome Sequence of an Edwardsiella piscicida-Like Species Isolated from Diseased Grouper in Israel

Stephen R Reichley; Geoffrey C Waldbieser; Michal Ucko; Angelo Colorni; Lidiya Dubytska; Ronald L Thune; Mark L Lawrence; Matt J Griffin

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00829-15

Complete Genome Sequence of an Edwardsiella piscicida-Like Species Isolated from Diseased Grouper in Israel

Genome Announc. 2015 Jul 23;3(4):e00829-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00829-15.

Authors

Stephen R Reichley¹, Geoffrey C Waldbieser², Michal Ucko³, Angelo Colorni³, Lidiya Dubytska⁴, Ronald L Thune⁴, Mark L Lawrence¹, Matt J Griffin⁵

Affiliations

¹ College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA.
² USDA-ARS Warmwater Aquaculture Center, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA.
³ Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Center for Mariculture, Eilat, Israel.
⁴ School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
⁵ College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA matt.griffin@msstate.edu.

Abstract

The Edwardsiella piscicida-like sp. is a Gram-negative facultative anaerobe that causes disease in some fish species. We report here the complete genome sequence of a virulent isolate from a diseased white grouper (Epinephelus aeneus) raised on the Red Sea in Israel, which contains a chromosome of 3,934,167 bp and no plasmids.