Draft Genome Sequence of the Extremely Halophilic Bacterium Halomonas salina Strain CIFRI1, Isolated from the East Coast of India

Bijay Kumar Behera; Priyanka Das; Jitendra Maharana; Prasenjit Paria; Shambhu Nath Mandal; Dharmendra Kumar Meena; Anil Prakash Sharma; Rijith Jayarajan; Vishal Dixit; Ankit Verma; Shamsudheen Karuthedath Vellarikkal; Vinod Scaria; Sridhar Sivasubbu; Atmakuri Ramakrishna Rao; Trilochan Mohapatra

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01321-14

Draft Genome Sequence of the Extremely Halophilic Bacterium Halomonas salina Strain CIFRI1, Isolated from the East Coast of India

Genome Announc. 2015 Jan 8;3(1):e01321-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01321-14.

Affiliations

¹ Biotechnology Laboratory, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, India beherabk18@yahoo.co.in.
² Biotechnology Laboratory, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, India.
³ Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, India.
⁴ Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India.
⁵ Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
⁶ Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, India.

Abstract

Halomonas salina strain CIFRI1 is an extremely salt-stress-tolerant bacterium isolated from the salt crystals of the east coast of India. Here we report the annotated 3.45-Mb draft genome sequence of strain CIFRI1 having 86 contigs with 3,139 protein coding loci, including 62 RNA genes.