Draft Genome Sequence of a Bacillus Bacterium from the Atacama Desert Wetlands Metagenome

Claudia Vilo; Alexandra Galetovic; Jorge E Araya; Benito Gómez-Silva; Qunfeng Dong

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00955-15

Draft Genome Sequence of a Bacillus Bacterium from the Atacama Desert Wetlands Metagenome

Genome Announc. 2015 Aug 20;3(4):e00955-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00955-15.

Authors

Claudia Vilo¹, Alexandra Galetovic², Jorge E Araya³, Benito Gómez-Silva⁴, Qunfeng Dong⁵

Affiliations

¹ Agriaquaculture Nutritional Genomic Center (CGNA), Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Temuco, Chile Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA.
² Laboratorio de Bioquímica, Departamento Biomédico, Facultad Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (CeBiB), Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile.
³ Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (CeBiB), Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile Departamento Tecnología Médica, Facultad Ciencias de la Salud, Laboratorio de Parasitología, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile.
⁴ Laboratorio de Bioquímica, Departamento Biomédico, Facultad Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (CeBiB), Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile benito.gomez@uantof.cl qdong@luc.edu.
⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequence of a Bacillus bacterium isolated from the microflora of Nostoc colonies grown at the Andean wetlands in northern Chile. We consider this genome sequence to be a molecular tool for exploring microbial relationships and adaptation strategies to the prevailing extreme conditions at the Atacama Desert.