Draft Genome Sequences of Two Novel Amoeba-Resistant Intranuclear Bacteria, "Candidatus Berkiella cookevillensis" and "Candidatus Berkiella aquae"

Yohannes T Mehari; Brock A Arivett; Anthony L Farone; John H Gunderson; Mary B Farone

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01732-15

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Novel Amoeba-Resistant Intranuclear Bacteria, "Candidatus Berkiella cookevillensis" and "Candidatus Berkiella aquae"

Genome Announc. 2016 Feb 18;4(1):e01732-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01732-15.

Authors

Yohannes T Mehari¹, Brock A Arivett¹, Anthony L Farone¹, John H Gunderson², Mary B Farone³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA.
² Department of Biology, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA.
³ Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA mary.farone@mtsu.edu.

Abstract

"Candidatus Berkiella cookevillensis" and "Candidatus Berkiella aquae" are obligate intranuclear endosymbionts of freshwater amoebae. Here, we present the draft genome sequences of these two bacteria, with total sizes of 2,990,361 bp and 3,626,027 bp, respectively.